Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...viewed an endless panorama of cows, cabbage patches and windmills on the sides of the canals; the towns were frequent and quaint. In the morning we would be awakened by enthusiastic peddlers who leaned into our boat in an attempt to sell us fruit of round cheeses which you ate by carving out from the inside like a jack's lantern. When we washed our dishes in the canals watered with Rhine sewage bright-eyed kiddies and incredulous adults gathered. Little boys who could speak English always appeared at crucial moments to direct us to grocery stores or lead...
...fair way to blunder a path into the hearts of the 300,000 people of this microscopic Grand Duchy . . . Impulsive, dictatorial, generous, fussy and friendly, Mrs. Mesta approached her job like the task of arranging a rather large tea-party complicated by the presence of some quaint foreigners . . . The people of Luxembourg are pleased as punch to have her here...
...exploit his special talents. The midnight chase through a clutching, echoing forest, with the gangling, lily-livered schoolmaster in full flight before the Headless Horseman, is a skillful blend of the hilarious and the horrible. It is Disney at his facile best. The rest of the story, dealing with quaint, legendary people, is flat and prosaic. Katrina might have popped out of a newspaper comic strip; Brom Bones looks like a Catskill country cousin of Li'l Abner...
...crowning blow to Joe's self-esteem was that the girl he loved in his boyhood became a popular novelist and wrote a book in which he found himself pictured as a tough guy, with quaint phrases and vague literary aspirations. It was true enough to make him wince and wrong enough to make him sore. Readers may feel somewhat the same way about The Best of Intentions. Its artificiality lies in the vagueness and unreality of Joe Moreton apart from, his adolescent and middle-aged embarrassments. The latter may have been real enough, but they are less than...
...This quaint law of Father & Mother Bao Dai's subjects has its larger applications. In the past, the French (and all the West) might blame Communist successes on the Communists, who seduced Asia's millions, or on the people, who let themselves be seduced. But today, in Indo-China and elsewhere, it is clearly up to the West to keep Asia's people in line, by offering them a better life than the Communist tempters...