Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among other little Codgerisms of mine has been the invention of and introduction to the entire world (including the States, through my old friend Mr. Eugene Peton, President of the Patent Scaffolding Co. of New York) of the quaint little old tubular steel scaffoldings you may have seen disfiguring or otherwise your fine buildings here and there...
...thread together these and kindred quaint inventions the picture tells the story of a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). He falls in love with her, encouraging her to believe he is a millionaire. His difficulties in getting funds to maintain this reputation in her unseeing eyes supply most of the complications. He finally acquires $1.000 for which he is promptly and unjustly jailed. When he emerges she has regained her sight by the aid of the thousand. As the film fades she recognizes in the ragged helpless vagrant the wealthy prince she dreamed about in darkness...
...relatives buried Agnes in their yard. Constantine, first Christian emperor, built a church over her grave. Pope Honorius repaired that church some 1300 years ago. Agnes as Saint became the patron of young girls. The eve of her Day (Jan. 21) many girls would resort to quaint magic to discern their future husbands...
...numerous are Nassau's habitues. They include: Publisher Nelson Doubleday, Publisher Conde Nast and his editor of Vanity Fair, Frank Crownin-shield. Bankers Thomas W. Lamont and Seward Prosser, Lady Diana Manners. Knowlton L. Ames Jr. of Chicago is not only a visitor but co-owner of the quaint Nassau Guardian, one of the world's few newspapers to be composed on inverted tombstones from old graveyards. Publisher Ames's partner is Miss Mary Moseley, spry member of one of the proudest "conch" (native) families. Other outstanding "conches": Sandses and Solomons, merchants; Fred Armbrister, able, artistic photographer...
...Young America harkens with Harkness back to an older Old World tradition. Three Reading Periods (stand and bow) are sufficient at least to blow the foam off a jugged brew. Three Reading Periods (roar from the pit) provide plenteous days to sink back into the Mediaeval and quaint Villonesque depravity. Against this melodrama. Harvard offers One Reading Period (now over) and the cheery blue dome of Lowell House reassuring the faithful that God's in his heaven and speaking to His Chosen The Vagabond endorses... and hibernates in the pure driven snow that has drifted into Memorial Hall with...