Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...varied and imposing celebrations" of last week naturally had their focus at Ottawa-that now great and flourishing metropolis the site of which Queen Victoria chose as the Capital of Canada by a most quaint expedient (1858). Her Majesty closed her eyes, gestured with her right hand and brought her extended right forefinger down on a map of Canada. Then, opening har eyes, she remarked: "It is our will that here shall be the Capital of our Dominion of Canada...
...quaint instance of Swedish cunning was observed in London, last week, when several large coffins were unloaded from a ship from Sweden. The coffins weighed but little more than packing cases of the same size, contained Swedish matches, were sold after the matches had been unpacked...
...quaint feature of the banquet was that, although Mr. Blumenfeld was born in the U. S., not one-tenth of 1% of his fellow countrymen have the slighest idea who he is. Londoners know that "Blum" has been editor of the Daily Express since 1904. He came to London from Manhattan in 1887 under orders from the late famed James Gordon Bennett to report Queen Victoria's first Jubilee. British tradition insists that "Blum has been in London ever since"; but that is an error. Actually he was Superintendent of the New York Herald in 1894; and not until...
...cherished, official Russian title, "The People's Artist." Newsgatherers sought put gigantic Singer Chaliapin in his dressing room, found him sitting hunched and disconsolate in a purple and cream silk dressing gown and red leather slippers. As everyone knows, M. Chaliapin's English is quaint. Correspondents reproduced it as follows: "I was born and always will be, a 'people's' artist. I sing for everyone. Politics, I understand nothing, absolutely. I never was what you call capitalist. I earn all my money; and everything I had in Russia was taken. "But Soviet Artists...
...quaint statement, however, is that this modern hermit avows his belief in the simple life, and thinks that Americans tend to "overdo things." There might be those who overdo the critical faculty to the extent of saying that one day atop a flag-pole is more than enough, and that a week spent in such a location savors in itself of overdoing things. Mr. Kelley, however, that shall be his title until his canonization upon the stage,--does not consider his martyrdom in such a light. He denies any attempt to reap publicity, swearing his simple intention of showing mankind...