Word: quaintly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another advt. told in quaint and cryptic English of silk stockings "which will not entangle your dress nor will they cause it to wear...
...Manhattan by native mimes will inevitably be compared with the Chinese drama simultaneously presented in Manhattan by the greatest of Chinese actors, Mei Lan-Fang (TIME, Feb 17)-, Any comparison must take into account the fact that Mei Lan-Fang acts the century-old, traditional drama of China, as quaint and stylized as a sketch on a box of tea, whereas the Japanese company gives examples of the Ken-Geki or sword-drama, a 10-year-old popular departure from the formal, aristocratic Kabuki and No dramas of ancient Japan...
...worthless husband, and once even bites off the lobe of that worthy's ear in her defense. Mulliver is already committed to a farmer's lass; the housekeeper and her brutal husband disappear; the converted grocer marries the girl. It is a pleasantly rustic idyll, with enough quaint dialect to tickle good humor, just enough "real life" to emphasize the idyll...
...quaint notion this--that the sanctity of the Sabbath day goes into effect precisely at 11 o'clock, no sooner and no later. At first the demarcation of such a definite dead-line for weekly sin appears to be wholly illogical, but after a lengthy microscopic examination, there becomes faintly apparent the only possible loop-hole to plausibility. The authors of this legislative marvel may perhaps have the ancient Hebraic conception of a personal deity with all the very human characteristics of the Olympian gods, who, after the activities of Saturday night, is scarcely interested in what happens on Sunday...
...blamed too harshly for retaining the Blasphemy Law, the Book-Censorship Law, and others of like absurdity upon their books. Their action is obviously based on a well meaning desire to preserve these masterpieces of antiquity for the edification and amusement of posterity. This is indeed a quaint notion, but one likely to result in considerable confusion, for Massachusetts is in danger of becoming a large penitentiary with the legislators as wardens...