Word: quaint
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...flaccid before skillful direction, and one is sure to find the "indulgence" ample fare. "Cake" may not cause the rafters of Brattle Hall to ring with unrestrained laughter, but there are certain to be wry smiles up Cantabrigian sleeves, as this or that familiar platitude is aired in the quaint garb which Mr. Bynner has provided. Like the three-year-old we shall eat the frosting which he has spread on his delectation, leaving the more solid fare to the erudite, if there be any such in attendance, unrepelled at the prospect of a "fantasy in verse...
...journalists to puff them, if King Haakon with excessive modesty is still self-conscious in Norway after reigning securely for a quarter-century, if Queen Maud goes about her shopping in Oslo completely unattended and sometimes unrecognized, this strange royal conduct seems to be exactly what Norwegians like. A quaint, possibly significant scrapbook is kept by Their Majesties. She pastes into the section headed We Never Did or Said This newsclippings of that sort. The rest of the scrapbook, much the larger section, bears mute but gracious royal witness to the high average accuracy of newsfolk...
...that something ought to be done to get the undergraduate out of the local excavations. His mail stated that no remarks about such commonplaces as New York Night Clubs, Wanderings amid the Widener Turnstiles and such ilk would be tolerated. The letter expressly stated that this column should discuss "Quaint, Quotable, and Out-of-the-Way Spots Having an Aura of Originality...
...puffed his pipe reminiscently, a quaint gargoyle in a roseate paradise, which betrayed the artistic aspiration of the nouvenu riche. Then he tapped the ashes reflectively on the white arch and set his alarm clock for an early rising hour in order that he might enjoy his soft boiled eggs in the dining room at breakfast, before the strike of nine sounded the liberation of the chickens from their daily toil...
...went to see the opera Hansel & Gretel when this problem was still unsettled in my mind." he snapped excitedly last week. "My eye was taken by the quaint fantastic fairyland gingerbread house on the stage. The thought struck me, 'just the thing!' Something like that for the children on the old cement kiln across the courtyard from the mill. I went to see the decorator Joseph Urban who designs the stage settings for the Metropolitan Opera, and he's been hard at work on this Gingerbread House of mine for two years. It cost...