Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attitude's queer and quaint-you're wrong if you think...
Still standing near the Emperor's park were the condescendingly quaint log houses of the Russian Colony which Frederick William III had built for his Russian musicians. Now Red Army troops were quartered in the houses. Near by was the road where 30-year-old John Quincy Adams, traveling to take up his post as first...
...these stories, of course, are about things which happened long ago and far away from Good Neighbor Peru (regarded as one of the South American nations most friendly to the U.S.). The tales were chosen by the author and screened by the translator to accent the quaint and unusual. Yet Ricardo Palma, if he has a U.S. counterpart, was his country's Washington Irving. His tales merely serve to accent the vastly different heritages of two Western Hemisphere nations. His own countrymen relish Palma's brigands and cutthroats because they are heirs to the tradition that life...
...about to stamp out when in minced the cherubic Woollcott, pencil poised. "Mr. Shallcross," he piped to the official, "I represent the New York Times, which must insist that you take immediate measures to fetch the perpetrators of this wholly unnecessary outrage to book or justice or whatever your quaint custom may be here...
...delegates missed the import of the city's past, they would hardly miss the significance of San Francisco in 1945-metropolis, arsenal, base of vast Pacific air and sea communications. To men from weary countries the men & women on the quaint cable cars, on the city's automobile-lined streets would seem incredibly fresh, well-dressed, well-fed. The great shipyards around San Francisco Bay would launch another small fleet before they departed. And along the Embarcadero they would see Harry Bridges' longshoremen loading ships with tanks, guns, food and clothing by the endless trainload...