Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clergymen are unfrocked often enough in England that the Times of London, which by a quaint tradition hires deposed clerics as literate proofreaders, is kept sufficiently staffed. But not in 29 years had a cleric been removed from office on the charge brought last week against ex-Vicar William Bryn Thomas, 62: adultery, committed with a Sunday school teacher named Elsie Brandy-and not once but, by Mrs. Brandy's accounting, "at least 75 or 80 times...
...established a tax on such establishments, and when criticized for his source of revenue, replied: "Money has no smell."). In an earlier day. the vespasiennes were a mark of social progress for a neighborhood and a token of masculine democracy. They have also become a quaint sight for tourists and a source of endless jokes. Last week, as the Paris municipal council debated their continuance, the pissoirs got an eloquent defense from Councilor Rene Fayssat...
...Neither the residents, nor the owners, claim to find any historic value in the Wharf beyond its importance as the former center of the cod-fishing industry--one of the industries significantly responsible for raising Massachusetts Bay to its major commercial status. Nor do they claim any architectural beauty. Quaint it may be, but not beautiful. Yet it has an aura which, as Mr. Love remarked, "seems to have a knack of inducing acute nostalgia in anone who has ever known it--including...
...made things especially tough for doctors. At last week's annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco, the nation's leading medical researchers agreed that the chief obstacle to effective surgery on cranial arteries is one of man's quaint anatomical features-the Circle of Willis (see diagram...
...thunder of those seaborne demolition charges rings distant in the ear; the armada that sailed from Falmouth is already as quaint and archaic as the fleet that sailed with Drake. For in a world of ballistic missiles, nuclear warheads and intricate, intercontinental guidance systems that are not bothered by such hazards as the River Loire mud flats, the glory of the Greatest Raid seems strangely out of date. Its moving and carefully compiled record belongs on history's bookshelves, a reminder of a non-atomic world when everyone was sure that wars could still...