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Word: quaintness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Thursday he went to the meeting of the $1,171,000,000 Consolidated Gas Co. of New York. It was a raw day. When he returned to his quaint old office he felt chilly. He called his car, went to his home on Madison Avenue over which falls shadows of midtown skyscrapers. (Next day the Empire State Building was opened.) Only recently had he come North from his Georgia retreat on Jekyl Island, where he and a small group of leading financiers have found rest and seclusion since 1886 and whither his most intimate friend, Edward Eugene Loomis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Last Titan | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...Cherries are Ripe" purports to be, and who would gainsay it, a risque, but restrained, comedy of sophisticated Budapest as it acts for a day in the country. The only thing jibing with this reviewer's quaint idea of what is Budapestian is Vilma Banky, and she is accordingly honored only because he read in the program that she was born in those parts. Rod La Roque is not quite up to his movie standard, which was unpleasant enough, anyway...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/10/1931 | See Source »

...beauty in the world. Stimulated artificially, they savor of dilettantism. The proposed university of Inverness would be an excellent thing as a general liberal arts college, not as a source of propaganda for Gaelic dialects. The expenditure of ten million dollars simply for the preservation of the picturesque and quaint can hardly be justified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELSH RAREBIT | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

Merrily, merrily last Christmastide laughed French friends of that quaint, rich U. S. couple, Mr. & Mrs. Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger of Philadelphia and Nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: So Shall Ye Reap | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...Came Back." Of course he had to go before he could return, so his rich, proud father had him shanghaied to Shanghai because he couldn't keep night clubs, blondes, and the bottle out of little Stevie's reach. Once there Stevie took a look at all that that quaint city had to offer in the way of gestures, and finally met up with his lost love who was occupying a bunk in a joss house...

Author: By B. O.c., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/13/1931 | See Source »

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