Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doorman, How to be Happy: A Preface to Morons by Walter B. Pipkin, Pfui D., Tristram Coffin, a finespun obituary by Edwinson Arlington Cemetry, Black Majesty by Dark van Moron, The Life of Joseph Wood Peacock by his uncle Doc van Doren, and Training the Giant Pander by quaint old Trader van Horen." Concludes Satirist Wilson: "And there was also Granville van Arven and his League of American Vipers, but that is another snory...
Barring catastrophies, unexpected reversals, and the other quaint tricks which make sports events unpredictable, John Chase's hockey team will romp to its second straight win tonight when it faces M.I.T. at the Boston Skating Club in a fracas scheduled for 8:15 o'clock...
This is the case with the Brattle Hall presentation with three notable exceptions. The lovable Grandpa Vanderhof is played by one of stage and screen's great character actors, Fred Stone, whose acting is a fine example of comic technique. He has all the timing, presence, and quaint mannerisms that are required to bring such a role to life, and his performance is one that should not be missed. He is best supported by his daughter, Paula, and by Nancy Duncan, who play his grand-daughter and daughter respectively. Nancy Duncan again shows her versatility as an actress...
...modesty, most shower baths are located alongside the public highway. Late in the afternoon one can drive along the road and see hundreds of men-whites here, blacks there- standing under a shower, washing off a half-inch accumulation of the day's grime. Soldiers love to pick quaint names for their camps: Virgin Lane, Luna(tic) Park, Scroungers' Rest, Hog Willow, and One Hundred Twenty-fifth Street...
Officers' enthusiasms: the amazing antiquity of local sights, the British greener-than-green landscape, outsize flowers, quaint and lovely villages, thick woolen blankets, polite policemen. Their chief beefs: "It's not home," warm beer, lack of transportation, too much rain...