Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Through quaint and Alpine Salzburg, in Austria, prowled last week a Manhattanite with a tiny cinema camera. While local mountaineers gawked he accosted a honey-haired Diana, persuaded her to pose before a crazily swung gate, "shot" Maria Jeritza...
...cattle, and sweet. Dog steaks are as tender as lamb chops, but taste flat. Frog legs are like the white part of chicken, would be appetizing save for the dead look of the bones. Rat flesh is like that of tame rabbits. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste. They are tough to chew. Human flesh, when the source is not known, is tender and sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earth worms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness. Eels even cooked retain their stench of the sea. Snakes. . . . An atavistic nausea sickened...
...saying he "wouldn't do such." The bedroom is in a dude lodge belonging to two embittered Manhattan males with a shingle over their door, "Damn the Women." One of these males is melted by the divorcée. Nancy, a profane prairie kitten, makes the evening a quaint quadrangle...
Stone lions, tigers, llamas, elephants, jaguars, buffalo, deer, squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks, cows, mice, peacocks, giraffes, donkeys, badgers, wolves, gazelles, quaint monkeys, lightly hopping kangaroos, ingenuous but haughty ostriches and many other animals, made in Europe, will be used as street markers in St. Petersburg, Fla., the gift of generous C. Perry Snell...
...Committee issued a subpoena for Mr. Insull and just then it became known that he had planned to go abroad. The press hinted at evasion, whereupon Mr. Insull, charged with having furnished the largest individual wad of political slush-money ever known, replied (in a quaint accent that is all his own) : "I have made only two statements for newspaper publication...