Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...giving its owner the power to fly through the wind and clouds. The graceful nymph, "Tennin", played by Miss Madeline Brine '22 of Radcliffe, who cannot return to her native haunts in Tryiyama without her cloak, retrieves it from the fisherman only after she promised to teach him the quaint dance of the Japanese Tennis...
...difficult for a modern generation to find interest in the ultra-melodramatic novels of forty years ago, except as a source of ridicule or amusement at the customs and institutions of those quaint days. Nor is anything gained in the dramatization of such productions, save, possibly, a vivid reminder of how far we have progressed in manners and morals since the old-fashioned period of superlatively good heroines, impossibly honor able heroics, and most villainous of villains. Adapted to the exigencies of the stage, the Arlington Players last Monday height put on version of Mrs. Augusta Evans' famous novel...
...Temotiu, has already won rank as a classic among books of travel. Although its author will never be held a great stylist, he is supremely readable. What is more important, he has the power to make his reader see the scenes which he describes so colorfully and know the quaint characters that live between his pages...
...League and which is now called the Palais de Nations is to be its headquarters. Across the lake, lies the Salle de Reformation, presented by the Swiss government, and it is here that the meetings will be held. The flags of forty-one nations are now flying from this quaint capital, crowded with five thousand representatives from all parts of the world...
...time. Miss Crothers' comedy is in three acts and narrates the story of a young girl from the West who comes to New York to make her fortune. She takes up quarters at a fashionable boarding house, "39 East," where only the "best people" resort. There are very many quaint and unusual characters in the comedy...