Word: quaintness
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...QUAINT COMPANIONS ? Leonard Merrick?Button...
What none would dispute though many smiled over was the good-humored, necessary, yet quaint omission of the writer's name from the whole consideration. There was a tennis world-and Tilden...
Here is a quaint imagination, a fine wit, a delicate style. One first thinks of it as fragile, then realizes that in reality Elinor Wylie's work would be robust were it only in consideration of her technical perfection. I like to think of her now in an old Connecticut house, surrounded by the demands of several children, yet creating quite calmly and steadily a manuscript fit to be traced upon vellum and illuminated by monks in cloisters, something rich, rare and only very gently indecorous...
...started his artistic career drawing rather than writing and then discovered his aptitude lay in the telling of stories. Perhaps this explains why he has always preferred to dwell more on intimate character sketches of Cape Cod folk rather than to bother too greatly with plot. He sees his quaint people whole and puts them on paper so, sketches them lightly and then inks them in with dialogue and anecdote, the situation furnishing a light background to the picture. The other thing I discovered about Mr. Lincoln was that when he was a boy he had a toy theatre...
When Lieut. Leigh Wade and Sgt. H. H. Ogden greeted their commander, Lieut. Smith, at Reykjavik, quaint Iceland town, Smith murmured a few words of sympathy to the men whom, he had last seen drifting helplessly at sea (TIME, Aug. 11). Wade, still grieving at the loss of his ship and at being out of the glorious adventure so near the goal, burst into uncontrollable tears. With difficulty his comrades quieted him, cheered !him further with the news that by express command of the Chief of Air Service himself, a new Douglas World Cruiser was on its way to Pictou...