Word: quainted
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...Sisters from Boston (MGM) nearly knocks itself out trying to assimilate the dissimilar talents of Jimmy Durante and Lauritz Melchior. Set in the Gay Nineties, the picture allows its top-notch cast to dress up in quaint period costumes and poke fun at turn-of-the-century manners. The tortuous plot winds the two pretty sisters (June Allyson and Kathryn Grayson) through such varied backgrounds as a stiff-bosomed New England drawing room, a Bowery honkytonk, an imitation Metropolitan Opera Co. stage in full cry. In spite of its singing, dancing, frenzied movement and fancy dress, Two Sisters adds...
...Liberal Tradition," said the older woman, "the Liberal Tradition. What a quaint sound it has now-almost like Ye Olde Waffle Shoppe. Who wrote...
...President's sentiments sounded somewhat quaint and academic against the background of industrial strife and power politicking, perhaps this was not so much to the discredit of Harry Truman as it was indicative of the feckless fatalism of the public...
...attitude's queer and quaint-you're wrong if you think...
Still standing near the Emperor's park were the condescendingly quaint log houses of the Russian Colony which Frederick William III had built for his Russian musicians. Now Red Army troops were quartered in the houses. Near by was the road where 30-year-old John Quincy Adams, traveling to take up his post as first...