Word: quaintly
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Embellished with Grange's own quaint philosophy, captioned with the chaste and simple statement: "This is my real story. I have authorized its publication," this series of articles will provide the youth of America with a mark to shoot at beside which George Washington's veracity will pale into insignificance. Yet the miracle of it is not that this greatest American of our day has finally received full recognition, but that this homely material could inspire in a Yale halfback such depths of lyric emotion...
Rehearsal. In London the return of Edward of Wales from his South American tour was preceded by a series of quaint yet vital doings. British Life Guards in full uniform and mounted on night-black charges cantered bravely to Victoria Station, wheeled through its gloomy archway, and drew up with a flashing salute before a strip of red carpet down which the Prince was not destined to march for another 24 hours...
...second and third Presidents of the College, respectively; a small note book once the property of Richard Waldrom of the class of 1738, in which he had inscribed the laws of the College adopted in 1735 and a number of the College customs of the time. It contains a quaint note on religion...
...leetle hour, I mek you 'appy," he promises his old friend,--to attempt to reproduce Alan Mowbray's quaint dialect with its compound of American, a plausible Spanish accent, and the twang of Oxford English. There is the mortgage. Pancho robs a bank and pays it. One or two individuals insist in getting in the way. Pancho's confrere, Pedre, points firearms at them. There is the offensive and superfluous husband. Pancho shoots him personally. "There! What you say, my frien'?" Are you not 'appy...
...that irreverent but optimistic curmudgeon famed in race-track ballad has now attained the age of 100, he was a stripling of 25 when the first issue of Harper's Magazine was published. If it is a fact, as some aver, that his quaint prophesy concerned, not the speed of a horse, but the future of that publication, he has been amply justified...