Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the group produces its own program, it is still under the wing of the Radcliffe Athletic Association. This relationship harks back to the days when dancing was merely a quaint form of exercise...
...parson, and Jingle and Mrs. Leo Hunter and many others have a proper share in the fun, and Mr. Young has contrived a sort of affectionate final roundup in the Fleet Prison. There is an attractive cast, and John Burrell's direction is neither too muscular nor too quaint. However debatable a change in terms of the book, Mr. Pickwick constitutes a rather refreshing change in terms of Broadway...
...quaint old American customs were turning up in Europe, bringing new romance and excitement to the increasingly prosaic continent. ¶At Rome's Stadio Nazionale. some 12,000 puzzled fans witnessed Europe's first international Pallabase (baseball) game. Urged by loudspeakers "not to be angry with any decisions made, because baseball is a highly technical game," they watched in awe and bewilderment as a team of Spanish all-stars trounced Italy's home club 7 to 3. High point of the game: Spanish Outfielder Antonio Casals' seventh-inning fuori di campo (home...
Like hosts of other schoolboy scholars, Nevill Coghill tackled Chaucer in his teens, and found the venerable verses too quaint to be much fun. In time-when Coghill himself had become a relatively venerable (47) fellow of Exeter College, Oxford-he set out to de-quaint The Canterbury Tales...
...Post's quarters, on crowded old Washington Street, look about as quaint as its makeup. Grozier kept it that way because he did not want to change its old-fashioned appearance. When he needed more room, he dug it out underground, equipped the Post with a modern plant whose presses spread through five subterranean floors. One of the paper's major handicaps has been the advertising edge enjoyed by its competitors (Globe, Herald and Trawler, Hearst's Record and American), which have both morning & afternoon editions, enforce "combination" advertising rates for both. If a recent court decision...