Word: quainter
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...institution is not so much malign as remote. The bride-to-be has just spent six intensive weeks learning its religious rituals and ceremonies. She has already participated in one of its quainter customs. Wearing a formal silk kimono for the first time anyone could recall, she joined her parents in their living room to receive ceremonial gifts (five bolts of silk, six bottles of sake and a pair of sea bream) from the grand master of the prince's household. His highness was not present. As soon as he received word that the presents were accepted...
...reckoned without the natives. Nine months were spent getting approvals from assorted local councils. Then in May, Fox carpenters set to work making the village even quainter than it was. TV aerials sprouting from gabled roofs were dismantled and a "piped in" system installed. Coca-Cola signs were removed, and because Puddleby-on-the-Marsh is a port, the stream meandering through town was dammed to create an inland...
...Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, has there been a more striking example of "how the law, when administered with insufficient humanity, can not only condone injustice but actively inflict it." Seldom, either, had Britain as a whole been more concerned over the strange workings of some of its quainter laws...
...suggested that that students should reed their local newspapers and become as quainter with the political situation "We must broaden the base of political interest," he said, "and we must do something about machine monopoly, which threatens civic liberty...
...Adolph Zukor are publishing reminiscences about the good old days, studios are remaking old hits (e.g., The Covered Wagon and Ben Hur), production schedules read like mail-order history (Demetrius and the Gladiators, Prince Valiant). But the most startling forays into the past occur at Hollywood's quainter eating and drinking places...