Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Substantially as planned and edited by Sir George Grove (1820-1900), London civil engineer, biblical scholar and Zin Arthur music commentator, who was secretary of the Crystal Palace and first director of the Royal College of Music. - And sometimes quaint. Samples: "Charles,? ('Mr. Charles') b. ?, d. ?. Prob. Hungarian 18th-century horn player and clarinettist. He is a shadowy but important figure, since he was the first named performer on the clarinet in the British Isles." "ZUFFOLO. In modern Italian, the name for the tin whistle. [There is] no reason for concluding, as some have done, that [the] zuffolo...
Gate of Hell. A Japanese legend of quaint war and fatal lust, wrapped in a rich kimono of colors (TIME...
Opening the City Center season, Barrie's classic displayed a rusty but apparently indestructible cleverness, a dusty but still perceptible appeal. If the play sometimes seems quaint, that is perhaps because every woman knows so much more than she did in 1908. But few playwrights today know half as much about smart box-office methods as Barrie did then. After 46 years, his sense of theater and shrewd manipulation of sentiment still...
Gate of Hell. A Japanese legend of quaint war and fatal lust, wrapped in a rich kimono of colors (TIME...
...things this week that can make Harvard Men especially proud that they are. One was the Life magazine spread on the quaint mores of the Big Ten. The other was at once, more subtle and more forceful, being an event that stirred the most shamefully concealed traces of School Pride. It was, of course, the annual Band Concert...