Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once an editor with the quaint name of James King of William left his office at the Bulletin during a feud with Editor James P. Casey of the Sunday Times. As King reached a corner, deep in thought, Casey confronted him with the usual challenge: "Draw and defend yourself!" Before he could, Casey shot him. In the confusion that followed, someone stuffed a dirty sponge into King's wound and it became infected. Casey was hanged by the vigilantes-and posthumously cleared by a court. Too late to help him, the Sacramento State Journal righted the miscarriage of justice...
...City (20th Century-Fox) is one up on most movies in two ways. The screen play, by Richard Murphy, who wrote Boomerang!, is unusually thoughtful and pointed. And the picture is directed by Robert Siodmak, one of those quaint, old-fashioned craftsmen who still believe that a movie should move and be visually interesting...
...anybody wants to find Art Valpey, Davey Nelson, Butch Jordan or thirty-six stalwart young men today, he'll have to put in a call to Watkins Glen, N.Y. This quaint little hamlet is where the Dunean Hines, of the H.A.A. has ledged the varsity football team for the Cornell weekend...
...Into the quaint geometry of love...
...Angelola in the big race, but Queen Elizabeth didn't give the royal entry a prayer. Said she: "I think I should back My Love." So did most of the 400,000 fans lining the track at Doncaster, England, for last week's St. Leger (rhymes with quaint ledger). My Love was the 7-to-4 favorite; the Aga Khan's mahogany three-year-old had already won the Epsom Derby and the French Grand Prix...