Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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History of another kind was also written in blood on the night of November 12, 1840. In one of the quaint alcoholic college traditions known as the "Calathump," students customarily gave vent to their opinions of instructors whose "walk and conversation" were unpalatable. One Professor J. A. G. Davis, chairman of the faculty and apparently rather unloved, was instantly shot by a marauding masked student whom he sought to identify. The "calathump" institution along with the "dyke," a lynch-party directed at students overly "addicted to calico" or Southern Womanhood, fell into gradual disuse in 1856. Ancestral example, however...
Edith Halpert shies at selling her best finds to private collectors, lovingly hides them away in the old Connecticut farmhouse where she spends her summers. "These things are not cute a bit," she says proudly, "and they're not quaint either. They're art. The one quality they all share is design, you see, and that's what contemporary artists emphasize too. Our modern painters have learned a lot from these folk artists...
...such theatrics are now only for Señorita Bombal's bag of situations, to be woven into her quaint, syrupy prose. For three years she has been married to distinguished, white-haired French Broker Fal de Saint Phalle. With daughter Brigette, 2, they live happily in Manhattan...
...have any friends who are Lampoon editors, you'll recognize them in the photographs which spot the magazine. They're as funny as Lampoon editors can be, in their quaint alcoholic attitudes. The drawings of Maria de Medici and the parody of Grant Wood's "American Gothic" are excellent. The advertisements are exciting, and for twenty-five cents, this Lampoon parody is a worthwhile souvenir of the game...
...built their Guru a splendid hermitage near San Diego ("jutting out [into the Pacific] like a great white ocean liner"). The hermitage was soon followed by two Self-Realization Churches of All Religions, one in Washington, D. C., one in Hollywood ("finished in blue, white and gold . . . with a quaint wishing-well...