Word: quaintly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...derby. The villain (Harvey Stephens) is not only a playboy, adulterer, champion sculler and murderer, but also a candidate for Senator. Sharon Norwood's mother (Billie Burke) makes sandwiches at midnight and talks like a lunatic. To cinemaddicts familiar with the strange symbolism of the medium, these quaint absurdities immediately indicate that After Office Hours treats of high life and are intended to make less implausible by contrast a wandering plot in which Jim Branch saves Sharon from an entanglement with the would-be Senator by getting the facts to show that he killed his onetime mistress...
Perfectly delighted was Professor Moley with the quaint personification of gold employed by Boss Calles in explaining Mexico's "entire freedom from the gold standard." Said the general grimly: "We marched gold out, stood it up against the wall and executed it!" The silver peso, declares Professor Moley, "is practically pegged to the American dollar. Mexico is prepared to follow the dollar, wherever it goes...
...along courtship and saving firework at the same time. The damsel and box suitor, when the winter winds blew off simply popped into bed, fully clothed lowered a small wooden fence between them and pulled the covers high ground their necks. This was called "bunding" and it is this quaint practice that provides the central theme for "The Pursuit of Happiness," playing at the Metropolitan theatre this week...
...left their rooms at about 11.15 in all manner of weird conveyances and arrived at the Varsity club at a little after 11.15 where a tasty lunch was spread, for them, prepared as only Mr. Waistcoat can. Delicious hot steaks were set appetizingly out in long platters, garnished with quaint sprigs of parsley. On the attractively decorated table were set large bowls of Raspberry jam, out of which peeped wide eyed little seeds. The steaming hot toast out of the big Union ovens came in and was eagerly devoured by the hungry horde of football fighters...
Although such a suggestion has in these days a quaint Victorian ring, there is possibly a question of courtesy as well as of competence. Professors do not as a rule refer publicly to CRIMSON editors or other students by name as slovenly and illiterate, whatever their opinion. Their restraint in such matters is inherent in the code of equality and polite intercourse that has superseded the older pedagogical autocracy. If undergraduates appreciate this newer spirit of fraternity and informality there is an obligation to reciprocate. But perhaps they would find such a course dull and uninteresting. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin...