Word: quainted
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...leaves are frazzled and fraying now, the hues of mid-fall gone. But a trace of the brilliance remains, enough to stir the stomach. New Hampshire retains its quaint mystique, the facade that the media and the politicos penetrate in February of every leap year. Something intangible, but pervasive, emanates from this state of towns carved from foothills. It draws the curious observer, and so eight months after the primary, the search begins anew...
...phrase "just a game" or any other diminution of the event seemed entirely out of place among the frenzied thousands who have filled this quaint New England backwater. It is homecoming, it is the home team's 100th anniversary, and--perhaps most importantly--it is Harvard, and Dartmouth aches for a victory...
...Philip Lance had only one problem: "There's some guy at the end of the floor who I think is chewing tobacco." Lance will just talk with the misguided fellow this time, but if the chewing persists he could face expulsion. By modern campus standards, it is a quaint worry, but Illinois' Wheaton College is unabashed in preserving a Garden of Eden moralism that has long since vanished from most campuses. Wheaton ground rules: no cheating, no racial prejudice, no tobacco, no alcohol, no drugs, no gambling-and no social dancing either. Students must sign a "pledge" card...
...horse-drawn wagon operating out of Hagerstown, Md. The motorized variety was widely in use before World War I and grew in popularity until well after World War II. Of late, branch libraries, mail order services and other ways of circulating books have been making bookmobiles seem a bit quaint, but there are at least 1,500 in operation in the 50 states. The Indiana department of public instruction still keeps two bookmobiles on the road each summer. This summer they distributed some 40,000 books, embracing 800 titles, at a cost of $40,000. The intent is mainly...
When Detroit's Jefferson Avenue assembly plant rolled out its first Chrysler in 1925, there were 56 optimistic American automakers. Along with familiar names such as Ford, Chevrolet and Cadillac were ones that have now become quaint, like Stutz Bearcat, Reo and Jordan. This year another new car is coming off the Jefferson Avenue assembly line. But today's Detroit is far more sober about its debut. Only four U.S. auto companies remain, and two of those, American Motors and Chrysler, are in danger of going the way of the Stutz Bearcat...