Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grisly. Reporter Robb was also the source of some innocent merriment in Manchester; townspeople tittered at the big-city blue tint of her grey hair. But Manchesterites were not amused when Correspondent Nicolas Chatelain of Paris' Le Figaro patronizingly observed that Manchester's French Canadians speak a quaint "17th Century" French. One of the local pastors denounced Chatelain as just "a former dishwasher," and a French-Canadian society lodged a formal protest with the French consul in Boston...
Here at the Naval Academy a very quaint system known as the "plebe system" is effect. Under such a system upperclassmen have the privilege of asking plebes, or freshmen, silly questions. I am a plebe, and I have just been asked a silly question which I believe you may be able to answer...
...with the rhythm of the music. As she sings, every motive in Lorelei's predacious little soul becomes hilariously clear. At the end of her first chorus, both Carol and Lorelei Lee belong to the audience forever. What Author Loos wrote between the lines and accented in the quaint misspellings of her slim novel back in 1925, Actress Channing hurls across the footlights in broad strokes of pantomime and bold, certain, exquisitely comical gestures. Her Lorelei is the little golddigger seen through a microscope, an outsized caricature...
...Tough men, the lords of American Big Business; the power they wielded had begun to worry thoughtful citizens. Some proposed that the government curb "the trusts." Others feared that legislation would exchange one tyranny for a worse. Arthur Twining Hadley, Greek scholar and president of Yale, had a quaint solution. In January 1900, Hadley proposed to deal with the business monopolist by an old Greek remedy-ostracism...