Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exotic little product of great hotels and continental schools, who actually "were her hair up" and shocked the children's party with the new Bunny Hug and Turkey Trot and Slingo Sligo Slide. Those naive and incredible days of 1912 made a story that, in retrospect, has the quaint provincialism of "Cranford...
There is no grander heritage than a noble tradition. Traditions do more than add quaint lustre to old and great names; they grant a stability and a tranquility which would be impossible without them. In the darkest hours England has ever known she has hung on and muddled through, because, generations before, men of England had hung on and muddled through. That is one of the finest traditions, but there are countless others. For centuries "the brethren in their sorrows overseas" have stood, glass in hand, in barren mess rooms looking at a homely portrait on the wall. One amongst...
...crocodiles and monkeys of a jungle which seems to be more densely populated than a stadium football game and to contain an even larger collection of queer pelts and extraordinary noises. As is usually the case in films with which wild animals are intimately connected, the story is both quaint and trivial. A married lady penetrates the Malay wilds to find and be reconciled with her husband (Charles Bickford) who is court physician to the potentate. The latter, a villain addicted to oily smiles and platitudes, threatens to throw her husband to the crocodiles in the palace pond...
Before marching forth President Chiang issued, through his publicity bureau, a thoroughgoing rebuke to his brainiest rebel foe, Foreign Minister Eugene Chen of the new, revolutionary "Chinese Government" at Canton (TIME, June 8). Suitable for framing, this quaint manifesto read as follows...
...family who had persuaded her to get engaged to a tycoonish Easterner. Just to be friendly Card went through the ceremony; Jane went East to put that in her family's pipe. Card considered himself bound to Jane until the rightly notorious Mrs. Ballintin thought it would be quaint to have a New Mexican house and got her clutches on Card. Then he thought It had come at last. When she first beckoned him into her room at night he was sure of it. Pretty soon he found she was just amusing herself. Then Jane came back. Card told...