Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strikes, strike threats and negotiations. Technology has outmoded many of the rules. Firemen used to shovel coal on steam locomotives; on today's diesels a fireman still rides along in the cab, doing no necessary work. The pay scale of many railroad workers is based on the quaint rule that a man gets a full day's pay for 100 miles of travel, with the result that an engineer on a fast express may get $39.95 for four hours' work while his counterpart on a slow freight may get $34.33 for ten hours...
David Mills, as the English Gentleman Visiting America to Learn Its Quaint Customs is delightfully blustering and charmingly conceited if not overwhelmingly British. A skillful comic, he pursues his women with-admirable vitality and resilence...
Sometime Novelist. As popular reading they are something else again. The style and the viewpoint that made Prescott so popular in his own time now seem quaint and dated. A modern reader, reading him for the first time, might conclude that he was perhaps as great a novelist as that other sometime historian, Sir Walter Scott...
...weeks out of the year, the tiny Isle of Man (221 sq. mi.) sits placidly in the Irish Sea, a quaint clinker of Celtic culture, noted mostly for its kippers and cats. But once a year the Isle is hell on wheels. Sandbags guard the sidewalks, the blat-a-tat of racing engines shatters the quiet, and gravediggers thoughtfully lay out new plots in Borough Cemetery. "Tourist Trophy Week" is at hand-and thousands of motorcycle riders arrive for a five-day carnival of racing over one of the world's most perilous courses...
Jingle Bells also wanders through a number of modulations and parodies, finishing up as The Great Pretender revisited. The subject of girls and what to do with them is also revisited, and the Dunces version of this quaint old children's song would disturb most carolers...