Word: quaintly
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...Voodoo like Hollywood? "Ect is so complex, so hectic. But zee country ees so beautiful." What interested her most in the States? She looked around for her manager who had gone off in the corner with the buyers. American slang was the answer; she spoke English well, but these quaint expressions--they confused her. Someone in the little group noticed she was without a drink. "Would you like a shot of something, Stella?" Only orange juice, she said. The circle laughed. La Voodoo looked puzzled...
After ten years of expansion, the Center is now seeking new quarters to replace the quaint but inadequate Victorian edifice. But, as one of the members remarked. "Let's hope that the new building will retain the friendly atmosphere always found in the Meads' home...
...Quaint Idea. This radical proposal was promptly slapped down by the Wall Street Journal, which observed that "preserving competition by creating a Government-dictated cartel is ... a quaint idea." Big Steel's Chairman Irving S. Olds offered another kind of comment. In his annual report last week, he disclosed that profits in 1949 were the highest since 1929 and totaled $165,908,829 (v. $129,627,845 in 1948). But Olds carefully pointed out that U.S. Steel's slice of the nation's steelmaking capacity has declined steadily from 44.2% in 1902 to 32.2% today...
...grisly. Reporter Robb was also the source of some innocent merriment in Manchester; townspeople tittered at the big-city blue tint of her grey hair. But Manchesterites were not amused when Correspondent Nicolas Chatelain of Paris' Le Figaro patronizingly observed that Manchester's French Canadians speak a quaint "17th Century" French. One of the local pastors denounced Chatelain as just "a former dishwasher," and a French-Canadian society lodged a formal protest with the French consul in Boston...
Violin Concerto and a basketball game with the league-leading University of Wyoming (which Utah won, 39-30). Instead of mulling over the past 100 years, quaint and historical though they might be, President Olpin and the University of Utah seemed more interested in celebrating the beginning of the school's "second century of service...