Word: quainted
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...This quaint view of Bretton Woods (taken by "Sagittarius" of London's New Statesman & Nation) was no stranger than some of the things that went on at the International Monetary Conference last week...
Debussy: En Blanc et Noir (Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, duo-pianists; Columbia; 4 sides). Late, comparatively poor-quality Debussy, principally interesting for the quaint way in which the war-saddened composer (who died during World War I) surrounds and satirizes a Lutheran hymn. Performance: good. Recording: good...
...several hundred new members to our fair and windy community. With these words of welcome a few admonitions and suggestions are called for. You new men will find Boston a very peculiar place. If you're the conservative or stay-at-home type, you might even call Boston "quaint." Boston is a place where civilization, faintly evident during the daylight hours, flares up for the few short twilight hours, and disappears promptly at 2400, Saturday night in particular...
...Clarence Day's father seem effete. Whether or not he was actually "the greatest living American," he did have a variety of attractions: his memories of General Grant, his Russian ballet girl, his box at the burlesque theater, his priceless cellar, his friendships with Mark Twain and numerous quaint characters of Manhattan's gilded...
...most were headed for field jobs, mainly in aviation. They serve on ground crews, work as aerographers and photo graphic technicians, gunnery and flying-instrument trainers, operate control tow ers, pack parachutes, drive trucks. Quaint est note of all: women buglers have released the famous Marine "field musics" for combat trumpeting...