Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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German-American Vines. So unusual is mob violence in Germany that the whole Fatherland was shocked last week, when 5.000 Rhineland peasants sullenly surrounded the District Court House at quaint Germersheim. Shaking gnarled fists, brandishing keen pruning knives, they behaved exactly like U. S. citizens about to lynch...
...moment allowing his day to be spoiled, Mr. Zukor rode with Mrs. Zukor beamingly beneath a triumphal arch, down a quaint main street, finally reached the synagog. "Welcome, welcome, Mr. Zukor," cried the Mayor of Ricse, and added somewhat redundantly, "We hail you as the greatest citizen of our village!" ( He is in fact the world's foremost cinema executive, president of Paramount-Famous-Lasky...
...their purpose said he: "Since I myself have been in the newspaper business since I was 17, I naturally am interested in having the coming generation realize the purposes and possibilities of newspapers. The courses in journalism are not intended to be a school of journalism. They should ac quaint the young men with the obligation which serious newspapers feel to serve the public, with the importance and the necessity of a free Press...
Headquarters were made in Liberia, a quaint, sunbaked town and the political center of Guanacaste, where, in the weeks of January, the temperature for several hours each day averaged 108 degrees Fahrenheit. It was a fortunate circumstances that gave the botanists privilege of witnessing the yearly carnival or Fiestas Civicas, held in Liberia in the last days of January. Being the center of the cattle country where most citizens carry revolvers at their belts, the town, with its gaily popular celebrations, attracted the native cowboys or sabaneros. They rode in from long distances on fine horses, their saddles decorated...
...Close" (pseudonym of Joseph Washington Hall, probably the greatest historian of contemporary Asia, certainly the one closest in tune with Asians), and C. F. Andrews, an Englishman who used to be St. Gandhi's secretary. In the daily press, taboo keeps Gandhi to the fore as a sort of quaint fool with spinning wheel, who for no good Anglo-Saxon reason is followed with blind fanaticism by gibbering millions. The wheel (every one of the saint's followers and he himself must spin at least 6,000 ft. of cotton thread per month, 200 ft. per day) is indeed...