Word: quaintness
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...quaint statement, however, is that this modern hermit avows his belief in the simple life, and thinks that Americans tend to "overdo things." There might be those who overdo the critical faculty to the extent of saying that one day atop a flag-pole is more than enough, and that a week spent in such a location savors in itself of overdoing things. Mr. Kelley, however, that shall be his title until his canonization upon the stage,--does not consider his martyrdom in such a light. He denies any attempt to reap publicity, swearing his simple intention of showing mankind...
Last week, lacking a political topic worth writing about, and having an eye to furthering the U. S. history he is writing,* and knowing that his newspaper (New York Herald Tribune) would be indulgent, and also knowing a quaint topic when he sees one, Mark Sullivan frankly substituted for political trivia a discussion and some queries about a U. S. institution called McGuffey's Readers. Were they still extant? If not, when had they died...
...constant desire for the compact miniature, a reality which shall be in his power to encompass, robbed of the hostility of bigness. "Salzburg lay changed beneath them the castle was as tiny as a chessman the tossing shapes of the Baroque Kollibien Kirche so frightening from his windows seemed quaint and harmless here." And there is his instinctive impulse to divide personalities from their physical appurtenances, with the feeling of a preconceived ability to dispose of these forms within their foreordained niches. The overwhelming ramifications of the puzzling ideas of Relation, Appearance, and Reality, which are suggested by inference...
Bulls, Ancient and Modern; Bulls and Blunders; and More Bulls and Blunders are three bulky volumes upon which rest the chief claims to distinction of Sir James Campbell Percy, Irish journalist and director of the Central Hotel, Dublin. Last week Sir James spoke at London before a quaint society, the Scroptimists Club. His subject: Bulls. His words, in part...
...method of evangelizing he described in his quaint autobiography: "Whenever I saw a man committing a sin, I reproved him, and then a multitude would gather around me. I would then begin to speak to them from a text of the Scripture, and would continue to speak as long as there was anyone to hear. Then the policeman would lay hold upon me, and drag me off to the police office, and my wife would get me out, and I would begin to preach again as if nothing had happened. Altogether I was nine or ten times in prison...