Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still, Lear's drawings and verses are quaint...
Herschel Baker, professor of English, added, "Although the veneration in which O'Neill was held a generation ago now seems quaint, it must be granted that he was a tonic influence on American drama when experiment and even audacity were needed...
...boxes and rasping out of the radio," said the News, "is an unceasing stream of songs about lovers meeting and parting within the sight and sound of mission bells, ladies left sobbing in chapels and strident testimonials to the serenity to be found in the little church in some quaint little old fishing village down Mexico way.* Never have so many done so much whimpering and moaning and screeching in the name of deep and quiet feeling...
...salary has risen from $50 to nearly $4,000 a week, paid by four sponsors (Swift & Co., Philco, O-Cedar and Toni). For this stipend, McNeill gives his listeners four "calls to breakfast," written to "snappy" tunes. Between songs, Don keeps things lively with what he calls "witty, quaint sayings." Samples: "Contrary to common belief, most women can keep a secret-it's the women they tell it to who can't," and "The man of today is the man who wears last year's suit and drives this year's car on next year...
...asks in a quaint prose, "to deceive a trout with an artificial fly-a trout that is more sharp-sighted than any hawk and more watchful and timorous than your high-mettled falcon is bold?" Deceiving trout with worms is also an art, the author believes, and a sport, too. He recommends "lively, quick, stirring" earthworms fattened on cream and eggs...