Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just what you'd imagine. Conrad Veidt stars in the Fine Arts presentation of "The Passing of the Third Floor Back", the ancient Jerome K. Jerome allegorical story telling about the bringing of sweetness and light into the lives of a bitter boarding house crew; for those with a quaint sense of humor...
...important now than in times past that freshmen have somewhere to turn for adequate guidance. The valuable reforms of the Conant administration, such as the change in both the language and distribution requirements, have stepped up the pace of the first college year to no inconsiderable rate, leaving the quaint covered wagons of the Adviser system hopelessly in the rear. In his report Dean Hanford has frankly recognized the confusion of the choice of concentration, but has tackled the problem in an orthodox, and, unfortunately, unimaginative way in his proposal for a series of departmental clinics. This austere system...
When Grier, a young Englishman on his travels, arrived in Japan, Tokyo's streets were still full of rickshas. Though Japan had beaten Russia and was beginning to emulate the West in other ways, its civilization was still essentially Oriental. Grier found it a quaint, delightful country. Its manners charmed, its emotions baffled, its women fascinated him. To his discovery that "in their attitude to sex the Japanese are a millennium ahead," a skeptical fellow-foreigner retorted that emotionally they were an incarnation behind. Grier could not be sure, set himself to solve the puzzle by falling in love...
...persistently jocose is more likely to cheapen himself than entertain his readers. "Count Rumford of Massachusetts" is the life of a brilliant and eccentric cosmopolitan figure in eighteenth century politics, science, and society. Yet Mr. Thompson seems far more bent in his book on playfully pointing out the quaint ways of our forebears in that remote age than on giving us a true picture of his subject. Perhaps no one else who has ever really read a book printed before 1800 has been amused by the old typographical character for the lower case "s". It is no funnier...
...less decorated manner. The common reader, for whom this book was obviously intended, need not be frightened by the semi-scholarly appearance of the book (bibliography, scattered footnotes, though no index). He may even find himself wishing for more honest facts and fewer tidhits illustrative of that so quaint life of the times...