Word: quaintly
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...such theatrics are now only for Señorita Bombal's bag of situations, to be woven into her quaint, syrupy prose. For three years she has been married to distinguished, white-haired French Broker Fal de Saint Phalle. With daughter Brigette, 2, they live happily in Manhattan...
...have any friends who are Lampoon editors, you'll recognize them in the photographs which spot the magazine. They're as funny as Lampoon editors can be, in their quaint alcoholic attitudes. The drawings of Maria de Medici and the parody of Grant Wood's "American Gothic" are excellent. The advertisements are exciting, and for twenty-five cents, this Lampoon parody is a worthwhile souvenir of the game...
...rubble heap. Hong Kong is nearer normal than any Far Eastern city. Prices are well controlled. A hotel room costs only $2 to $3 a person. Singapore is smellier, more overcrowded than ever. But the famed Raffles Hotel is open again to tourists-although they may find it too quaint to be comfortable...
...built their Guru a splendid hermitage near San Diego ("jutting out [into the Pacific] like a great white ocean liner"). The hermitage was soon followed by two Self-Realization Churches of All Religions, one in Washington, D. C., one in Hollywood ("finished in blue, white and gold . . . with a quaint wishing-well...
Tucked away in a corner of Paris' rue Chaptal, a cobblestone nook at the edge of Montmartre, is a quaint little Gothic chapel. Inside, carved cherubs and two seven-foot angels smile down from the black-raftered vault at a nightly round of vile murders, manglings, and assorted acts of torturing, fang-baring, acid-throwing...