Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quaint old Printing House Square, home of the, London Times, is the closest thing to a shrine that journalism has built. For 163 years its editorial sanctum has been a cradle for Olympian thunderbolts, and its correspondents, often better informed than Whitehall's diplomats, have helped shape British policy as well as interpret...
...Mont had another newscast, illustrated with still newsphotos. A travelogue about "quaint" old Charleston followed...
Lashed to a creamy froth, the skies tumbled a blanket of white on the Eastern Seaboard the day after Christmas. At first it was mistaken for leftover egg-nog, but it was not long before the awful truth dawned upon the quaint villagers of New York and Boston. It was snow. The mold had finally been broken. The awful implications were soon abroad, and within a day the sign of the flying red horse had changed to an off-white. But the effects were even broader; James B. Conant switched to Calvert because he liked its flaky texture; there...
...Sausage?. In Moscow slogans fluttered everywhere. Cloth that might have shielded shabby workers from the biting winter was daubed with likenesses of Marx, Lenin, Stalin and minor Soviet gods, and hung on buildings. Materials and labor skills which could have made houses everyone needed were used to construct gay, quaint booths for tea street fairs, where felt-booted citizens who tired of street dancing in the light November slush could buy (at fantastic prices) champagne, vodka, soda pop, bread and sausage. Truck-borne roving players mimed and capered on eleven bunting-draped stages in public squares. Fifty-three bands washed...
...somewhere in the football leagues A little trophy stands, Surrounded by a cheering throng And gaily-playing bands. But up at quaint old Cambridge Town The flag is at half-mast, For there is no gun at Harvard; Our cannon's back at last...