Word: quainted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...anything in relation to getting where one wants to so, because inevitably one finds oneself back where one started, in exactly the same spot only several hours later. The best, course of action, therefore is if one can afford it, a taxi, thus enabling a person to see many quaint spots of the city and to experiment in the naive taxi rates in Boston, a system which has its basis on the theories that every movement of the meter has a meaning all its own, that cobblestones and hills increase the distance in dollars and lessen the distance in space...
There is a quaint belief, conceived in boredom and born out of terrific sophistication, that all Freshman classes are, as a group, alike. The numerals, the names, and the faces change, but the composite similarity is timeless. Fortunately for the world in general and for Harvard College in particular this epigrammatic obituary of the still-born hopes and illusions of youth is quite incorrect. It is assuredly a neat phrase and accompanied by a certain shrug of the shoulders and flick of the ash it assumes the proportions of a social gesture. But it is untrue--gloriously untrue...
...Egypt, but honor done to him is still honor done to the Egyptian masses who must in the end attain their destiny and choose what nations to call "friend." While King Fuad was in residence with Italian royalty, he and his entire suite were required to enact a quaint mummery so that he might call at the Vatican. Etiquette forbids that any person shall pass directly between a residence of the King of Italy and the residence of the Pope. Therefore King Fuad was obliged to "reside" for a few minutes both going and coming at the Excelsior Hotel...
Four young men, brothers, comrades and coworkers, have a quaint avocation. One of them (not always the same one) is constantly being chosen to leave home. When he goes, the three remaining brothers are in the station, on the dock or at the flying field. They wave goodbye, and, when the absent one returns, he finds them once more at the field, dock, or station, pre-.pared to clasp his hand. All four are sons of the King and Emperor George V; and neither storm nor snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these brothers from...
...Elizabeth City, N. C., happened an accident, result of a practical joke, the account of which in the local newspaper was so quaint that the Journal of the American Medical Association reprinted it last week among...