Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Time to Travel. Chicago's seventh biggest department store, the Boston had always reeked with a quaint, Victorian mustiness. In its old-fashioned ways, it reflected its owner...
Died. Horace Pippin, 57, exporter, self-taught, a top U.S. Negro painter, whose works hang in nine major museums, many a private collection; of a stroke; in West Chester, Pa. Because a bullet wound paralyzed his right arm in World War I, Pippin had to paint his quaint, rugged primitives by supporting his right hand with his left, did it well enough to be compared favorably with famed primitive painters Douanier Rousseau and John Kane...
...Sisters from Boston (MGM) nearly knocks itself out trying to assimilate the dissimilar talents of Jimmy Durante and Lauritz Melchior. Set in the Gay Nineties, the picture allows its top-notch cast to dress up in quaint period costumes and poke fun at turn-of-the-century manners. The tortuous plot winds the two pretty sisters (June Allyson and Kathryn Grayson) through such varied backgrounds as a stiff-bosomed New England drawing room, a Bowery honkytonk, an imitation Metropolitan Opera Co. stage in full cry. In spite of its singing, dancing, frenzied movement and fancy dress, Two Sisters adds...
...Liberal Tradition," said the older woman, "the Liberal Tradition. What a quaint sound it has now-almost like Ye Olde Waffle Shoppe. Who wrote...
...President's sentiments sounded somewhat quaint and academic against the background of industrial strife and power politicking, perhaps this was not so much to the discredit of Harry Truman as it was indicative of the feckless fatalism of the public...