Word: quainted
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...quaint sanctum of the Lampoon yesterday afternoon a medal inscribed "Lampy to Francis W. Saunders for the Best Artistic Work of his Year" was presented to that editor in token of his winning the $1500 Scholarship award for foreign study, offered this year for the first time to "the Senior editor with the most deserving artistic or literary merit...
...Wanda Landowska, Polish virtuoso, is a modern harpsichordist. A fortnight ago she performed charmingly upon her quaint old instrument to the accompaniment of the Chicago Orcestra...
...exhibits of unusual interest are Thackeray's copy of Cowper's poenis with autograph notes, and a quaint, rambling letter from Dawrence Sterne in which he solicits the patronage of a great man for a proposed continuation of "Tristram Shandy...
...popularity is not surprising; as a pleasing, easy-going, rather placid performance it was entirely satisfactory. As everyone knows, there is little or no excitement involved in "Shavings"; there are several passages of not too heavy pathos, but on the whole it runs along at a charming level of quaint humor and light philosophy, "Shavings" himself, the kindly, absent minded toy-maker, is usually engaged in trying to unite the village feudists, Captain Sam Hunniwell and Phineas Babbitt, and eventually he succeeds when Leander Babbitt and Maude Hunniwell decide to be married. There are several other parallel themes...
...rather exciting to see her come to life upon the stage. Though the authors (Walter Prichard Eaton and David Carb) protest volubly that the play is not a dramatization of Strachey, it is the readers of his book who will be particularly attracted. The play has caught all the quaint charm of the girl who developed retiring domesticity into a regal legend. It was Strachey who popularized the legend in America...