Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where the fringes of Asia touch Europe the Black Sea pours, its waters down the Bosporus into the blue Mediterranean and divides the West from the East. Here is the Near East, with its diversified aromas, its medley of tongues and faiths, its rowdy bazaars, its quaint assortment of dress, its veiled women-a land where Allah is worshipped and Muhammad is his Prophet. Here, too, are five American Colleges fearlessly imparting learning to various people of various races, of various religions...
...Ambassadors are early introduced to this quaint English custom. It is now a part of the London Ambassador's duty to eat dinner with the Pilgrims on his arrival and again on his departure...
...leans on his sword in a palace garden. Upon the countenance of this titled guardsman is an expression at once arrogant, amused and sly, the result of a lifetime spent in listening to what blood will tell. A small dachshund straddles at his feet; the sooty face of this quaint and useless animal reflects, curiously enough, his identical expression...
...friend Hawthorne said that she was worthy of being the maiden aunt of the whole human race; at all events her name, Frederika Bremer, forgotten now, was then known in every house. Here and there she visited, met most of the famed people in the U. S., observed the quaint customs of the land, described it all in letters to her sister back in Sweden. Her letters were published soon after and widely read. Now they have been republished...
...QUAINT COMPANIONS ? Leonard Merrick?Button...