Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain. And what a loss it is! Never again to see that enchanted or at any rate transmogrified land, wrapped almost all the year round in a dense fog-that will indeed be a deprivation. It was a land which we had all learned to love . . . it had a quaint, dreamlike charm all of its own. Its House of Commons (in which Sir Aubrey Smith almost always sat, often as a duke), though generally rather smaller than our own, was infinitely more animated as well as being better lit. . . . Its policemen, barely discernible as they patrolled the fog-bound streets...
...have such a combination of stuffiness and conventionality. Ravenal is a stereotype of an age that took its stereotypes seriously. Consequently, although the narrative itself lacks vitality, the period it characterizes seeps through, and the dances, costumes, sets, and direction go along with the music to crystallize its quaint elegance...
...Quaint Holy Cross posters like "Virginia ham will be our bacon" got an airborne answer yesterday noon as a monoplane with an unidentified Crimson partisan at the wheel strafed the Worcester campus with leaflets...
...Hudson River mansion of Washington Irving, restored by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (at a cost of almost $1,000,000) to the approximate condition in which the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow left it when he died in 1859, was opened as a public museum. Inside the quaint white pile, decked with crowstep gables, weathercocks and bronze finials, visitors found Irving's library intact, saw his shaving equipment, medicine bottles, pens and four-poster...
Just as they are about to leave the quaint fishing village for Paris and married love, Mitchum turns up from years of imprisonment, with a beard and more desire than both of them put together. A beautifully photographed fog promptly descends, through which the three principals grope, knife, shoot and shout their way toward a predictable ending...