Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week freak-fenestration's pioneer, Saks Fifth Avenue, was at it again. This time the artist who furnished the in spiration was Henri Rousseau, the little French baggage inspector whose quaint, ingeniously primitive jungle pictures (painted on his Sundays off at the Zoo in the Jardin des Plantes) awed pre-war Paris...
...people who could laugh uproariously at war-flavored jokes. Housewives were still in the mood and the money to shop, and flower stands were loaded with the best and gayest flowers in years. In air-raid shelters in intellectual Bloomsbury, Britons kept alive their ancient, threatened culture by chanting quaint madrigals. Britons were still Britons, but they would not have been human if the strain had made no impression...
Somewhere behind the German lines, in a house on whose walls hung quaint pictures of Belgian and French beauties of days gone by, German-American Hearst Writer Karl H. von Wiegand waited one day last week for Hitler. Around him, like suspicious police dogs, gathered the familiar assistants of a Hitler interview: Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, Ribbentrop's Lawyer Hewel, Chief of the Propaganda Ministry's Press Bureau Dr. Dietrich, Foreign Office Interpreter Schmidt...
Vittorio Emanuele III it was who signed that quaint, antique instrument, the Declaration of War, and for his pains was patted on the head by Messrs. Mussolini and Hitler. "I feel the urge," telegraphed .the Fiihrer from German G. H. Q., "to express my most heartfelt greetings to Your Majesty." Signs aplenty had told the Italian soldiers that the hour was at hand. The hour had in fact been at hand so long that some Italians believed the chimes of destiny's clock were out of order. But last week the blowing hot and cold suddenly became...
...long as any Salemite can recall, the Bushes have been Salem's first family, its only millionaires. Asahel II had three sisters, the most notable of whom is quaint, petite Miss Sally, who lives in a big old house in the 40-acre "wilderness" Asahel I bought in mid-Salem, a block from the State capitol. There she cut fresh flowers each morning to pretty up the Bush Bank's lobby. There she pastured her cows. Asahel II 's son was no banker, dabbled in world travel, social pastimes. Of the grandsons, one, Asahel IV ("Tito...