Word: quaintly
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...they settled down fairly permanently in 1914 when Belgium engaged the Hoover genius to keep 10,000,000 warhemmed people fed for four years. Intellectual, she helped her husband in his post-War diversion of translating Georg Bauer's De Re Metallica from cryptic 16th Century Latin into quaint but useful English...
Balloting. Thirty-four parties crowded the field, an average of slightly more than one political group per million Poles. To meet competition thus keen, the Sanatzia or Healthy Politics party, supporting Pilsudski, adopted quaint & questionable expedients...
...yachted with his brother Jacob Frederick, reputed world's biggest wool merchant, who flies a Boston Yacht Club flag. Up to his last illness he wrote sea yarns for the Atlantic Monthly, The Bellman. Modest, despite his immense knowledge and creditable learning, he had a quaint way of submitting his salty MSS. to University-bred employees, "just to have a glance over the grammar and syntax...
...Quaint birds, animals and reptiles moved about them-atop Mt. Roraima, and on the plateau below. Mr. Carter killed a jaguar as it was feeding on its kill, a colt. The elder Mr. Tate killed a poisonous bushmaster snake five feet long just after he had stepped across it in the dark. One of their 130 Arecuna Indian porters hacked with his machete at a 14-ft. anaconda until it was dead and ready for eating. (Anaconda flesh tastes something like chicken.) They snared birds, netted insects, disinterred ground plants, culled orchids from their treeholds, pounced on small beasts. Rare...
...above three bits of quaint if unrelated information emerged from visits paid, last week, by Their Majesties to the British Industries Fair which was open in two sections, one at London, one in Birmingham...