Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Leslie Thrasher, 47, magazine illustrator famed for his quaint Saturday Evening Post covers; of pneumonia contracted after he was overcome by smoke in a fire which razed his home at Oldfield Village, N. Y.; in Port Jefferson...
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Contemporary reminiscences of childhood, appearing in more autobiographical novels than most readers would care to study, usually present a grim picture of the years of innocence, attach dubious value to fabled and Freudian childish joys. Last week a quaint book written in the mood of a less self-conscious age gave a lively account of a happy girlhood in one of the most repressed and inhibited environments in the U. S-the household of a Cambridge clergyman in the 1870's. Eleanor Abbott's grandfather was the prolific author of the Rollo books. Her father was first...
...Gaumont-British has done a creditable job, and undertaken, with measurable success, the difficult task of reanimating scenes from the past. Nova Pilbeam, the new GB star who plays the part of Lady Jane, may not be a finished actress, but she has a quaint, old-fashioned charm which seems eminently suitable. Cordie Hardwicke, as the ambitious, cold-blooded Warwick, makes an evil geni of convincing unamiability. The supporting cast is of high calibre, thus insuring against any let-down in the minor, transitional scenes...
...Sallie Reynolds Matthews' Interwoven bears the authentic stamp of pioneer documents, is the quaint and kindly chronicle of a lady who was born near the present site of Breckenridge in 1861, carries her story, with the stories of her family, to 1900. Sallie Reynolds grew up when Indians were a constant menace, when families huddled together in the uncertain protection of forts in face of raids. She saw enough of the ruthlessness of early settlers to believe in "the inherent nobility of the Red Man." She casually tells a story of a young gunman who killed an unoffending Indian...