Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guajira Peninsula, at the northernmost tip of South America, live 18,000 nomadic Indians who roam a sandy waste (part Colombian territory, part Venezuelan) mounted on horses or old Ford trucks. Anthropologists' accounts of the Guajiro Indians read like tongue-in-cheek parodies of all sober treatises on Quaint Customs of the Aborigines. Item: a thief hurt while trespassing on the property of an intended victim can demand, and get, compensation from the property owner. Item: suicide is a means of vengeance; the person who kills himself believes that he will suffer less than those who goaded him into...
...over Europe, supposedly had to put up with a cool reception at the Met and the social snobbishness of the man (Carl Benton Reid) who was both its chief patron and the father of the girl (Ann Blyth) he loved. It is a story full of the kind of quaint dialect which, designed to sound like a literal English translation of Italian, sounds only like pure Ruritanian...
...Quaint as it may seem for a women's college, Wellesley is a hotbed of fire chiefs, fire captains, and fire lieutenants. On March 17, 1914, College Hall, the center of the campus, burned down. There has been lots of emphasis on fire drills since. So around that day of Marsh, the college holds a midnight fire drill. It's the only time a Wellesley girl is told to pull up the shade and keep her door open. She must also grab one valuable thing, even if it's not her roommate. Teddy bears are discouraged...
Picturesque towns to visit are Sandwich, Wellfleet, and Provincetown. Sandwich has screnely escaped the summer trade. It neatles quaint and unspoiled to the northwest corner, right near the Canal...
...evening opened quietly with a quaint orchestral suite from a Gretry opera, a subdued piece which contrasted well with the more bombastic music that came later on. It is not difficult to understand why Andre Gretry's once-popular operas have been neglected for years. Although the music has a certain old-fashioned charm, neither the themes nor their development show any signs of genius and are of historical importance only...