Word: quaintly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern American is a light-year removed from the provincial prototypes who gave the nation one of its richest lodes of comedy and satire. The hayseeds-a word as quaint as Gotham-can no longer be sold the radiator in their hotel rooms. Dodsworth would probably call his p.r. man to get tickets for a hit show, and Eugene Gant, far from being intimidated by the problem of white flannels, would have his Dacron boxer shorts laundered by the staff of the Americana Hotel. Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge would be hospitalized for logorrhea long before...
Town Cries. The admen did not have the occasion entirely to themselves. Every English town that could claim the remotest connection with either Harold or William beckoned tourists with such quaint attractions as Conquest puppet shows, town-crier contests and dancing on English Channel piers...
...Hays Office, and the Hollywood Production Code it used to administer, are institutions as quaint and dated as Busby Berkeley musicals and brown-and-white shoes. Yet their demise and the present attempt to replace them tell a good deal about American show business-and therefore about American mores...
...stage, it is pointless to lament that the rest of the Met is slightly tacky. It would probably take the management twenty years to amass the funds and courage to make significant changes. The new generation that arises by that time will forgive the new Met as being quaint, just as we forgave the old Met for its idiosyncrasies...
...master manager and logistician also became adept at dealing with the peculiar brand of hysteria that so often swirls within musicians' souls. Once an Italian orchestra threatened a walkout because there were no coat hangers in the dressing rooms. Bing merely explained that the Scots have this quaint old custom of hanging their coats on the backs of chairs. Accordingly, when one is in Rome, one ought to, etc., etc., etc. Not wishing to offend, the Italians went native and played molto dolcissimo...