Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back home after 20,000 miles of lecturing in the U.S. for the British Information Service, Lord Lawson, a former coal miner elevated to the peerage by the Labor Party, described a few quaint American eating habits: "Americans kill you with kindness . . . and with their cooking. Their meals are too big. They eat to live, not live to eat. But I go crazy over their coffee and waffles...
...through, the Enquirer's 800 employees will move into the Times-Star's modern, 15-story tower and use the same composing room and presses. Nevertheless, Hulbert Taft promised that the venerable Enquirer will retain its identity and also the same management, staff and makeup, including its quaint, archaic headlines. Sample...
...mild modern stereotype of a Quaker would surprise the fiery Friends of George Fox's 17th Century as much as today's average idea of a Christian would surprise the dangerously living followers of St. Paul. The early Quakers were not quaint and softspoken; they were religious enthusiasts of passion and vociferous outrage who were not afraid to raise their voices against a minister in his pulpit or a slave dealer at his market...
...Sica's fairy tale, written by Cesare (Shoeshine, The Bicycle Thief) Zavattini, is the story of Toto the Good (Francesco Golisano), a newborn baby found in a cabbage patch by a quaint, gentle old lady. Toto is reared in an orphanage after her death and graduates one day into the streets of Milan, a youth of 20, utterly naive, trusting and goodhearted...
Otherwise, the volume is perfect. Kelly drew some new portraits of his pet 'possum for the covers and title pages that picture his quaint whimsical attitude toward life...