Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DARK LADY, by Cothburn O'Neal (313 pp.; Crown; $3.50). A quaint "theory" about who really wrote Shakespeare's plays: it was a woman, Rosaline de Vere, illegitimate daughter of the Earl of Oxford. What with the prejudice of the day and Rose's being a poor defenseless bit of a thing, Actor Will obligingly markets the plays with the Globe Theatre and signs his name to them. Rose meanwhile dashes off a great many billets-doux in the form of very quotable sonnets to her true love, the Earl of Southampton. The book is clearly marked...
...Quaint Habit. Spike made Navy boxing his life. He taught all his midshipmen the same jabbing, skipaway style that saved Gene Tunney after Jack Dempsey flattened him for the famed long count in 1927. And he was a bug on conditioning. All Webb teams did road work before reveille; all Webb boxers developed washboard bellies. They needed them. Coach Webb had a quaint habit of slamming his fist into any abdomen within range, by way of greeting...
...dressed in an ill-fitting, wrinkled suit of black, which put one in mind of an undertaker's uniform at a funeral . . . His turned-down shirt collar disclosed a sinewy, muscular yellow neck; and above that . . . bristling and compact like a riff of mourning pins, rose the strange, quaint face and head, covered with its thatch of wild republican hair...
...horse they are betting on gets drunk and cannot make the post until the boys rush forward with the black coffee and bromo. Otherwise, it is the usual ill-swizzled Dean & Jerry cocktail, with most of the jokes settling quickly to the bottom. Dean: "Ain't he quaint?'' Jerry (haughtily): "You mean, isn't he quisn...
...most of its devotees, the Window Shop is merely a quaint combination of foreign gift center and Viennese restaurant. But to the waitresses who work there, the shop is an open window to a new life in a new country. For the pat fifteen years, this store has welcomed refugees, offering a home during the difficult period of adjustment. It was with this idea that a group of faculty wives started the store in 1939. Their main concern was in helping refugee students and their wives to pay for an education, but after the first few years, the shop encompassed...