Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrote William Andrew Me Andrew: "Norman Rockwell, erstwhile giver of delight by his depiction of lovable and quaint rugged individualists, took the Evening Post's money to do this ulcerous thing. . . . No decent allegiance to the American ideals of education, as formulated by Washington, Franklin and other founders of the nation . . . can be maintained if public prints throw disrespect on education and on women. The cartoonists drawing teachers depict pretty women, now. The Saturday Evening Post's bad break is probably a relapse, a case of atavism, a recollection by some unhappy old man who told Rockwell what...
Thomas turned out to be an African Gold Coast Negro who once spent six months in Addis Ababa, and had fled to the U. S. in a hurry to escape arrest for fraud. More quaint was the other "Ethiopian" exposed in Tokyo last week. On removing from his face a mixture of soot and cold cream, police discovered that they had a Japanese college student. Taro Yamada. No prankster, Mr. Yamada had turned himself from yellow to black because he believed that today an Ethiopian would prove irresistible to the Japanese waitress of his desires...
Once a year quaint medieval Nürnberg finds its population tripled by the marching, seething squash of Adolf Hitler's Party Congress. Last week on Adolf Hitler Platz as 800,000 pairs of German boots came pounding in, one canny shopkeeper was swamped with business beneath his sign "Are your feet tired? Try our special powder...
Last week this rebellious Japanese lady, in the story of her life, seemed to look back upon her own varied activities with a mildly gratified air of astonishment, offered a book at once quaint and informative, packed with matter-of-fact political and social data and naïve little feminine disclosures...
PERSIAN CONQUEROR?George S. Hellman?Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Quaint, old-fashioned romance involving Cyrus, Leah and the simple trickery by which the Babylonians were undone...