Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is told in a graceful, leisurely prose which gives Bridie Steen an oldfashioned, 19th Century quality found in few recent novels. But even on so quaint a dish, novelists today would not dare to serve up so cloying a mixture of Irish whimsy, gooey romance and tear-jerking melodrama...
Boston was shaken by some old phrases from Playwright Noel Coward. The censor banned two quaint lines from his 15-year-old Design For Living (which played Boston uncensored in the early '305). One referred to a "wanton abode," the other to an "unpremeditated roll...
Since 1931, when Cornelius McGillicuddy had his last pennant-winning wonder boys, the Philadelphia Athletics had been a consistent team: the most weak-kneed in the American League. The man the baseball writers once considered a genius came to be regarded as a quaint old character content with teams so cheap that they made a profit even when they finished in the cellar...
With the Veritas emphasis on fantasy, Alden said that the hilly Charles slum area was perfect. It's really rather quaint, with its cobblestone streets and local characters supplying more than enough of the proper atmosphere...
...Wall Streeters thought it quaint that Lawyer Masterson should be attacking Otis & Co. In a previous suit, he had been Otis' counsel. This moved Kaiser-Frazer to charge, in its own suit, that Otis & Co. "inspired" Masterson to disrupt the deal. But Masterson had another story. He charged that Kaiser-Frazer profits were finding "their way into the pockets of Kaiser and Frazer personally [via parts companies and other agencies personally owned by them] and not to the stockholders." He said the accounting he demanded would "wise up the whole country about Mr. Kaiser...