Word: quaintness
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...award of the varsity "P" to the ten surviving members of the Princeton football team that first played Yale in 1873 recalls the days when football was less a science than a rough and tumble for bewhiskered gentlemen. On the walls of the Union there still hang quaint photographs to testify to the ferocious appearance of these doughty warriors. And the historian is apt to write that the last half of the past century saw the beginning of all things football. But an even more ancient lineage can be traced...
...think: "Why, yes-I guess I will." You remember, vaguely, bookplates you have known-heavy engravings of armorial bearings in large volumes bound in calf-cute, little bookplates, nauseatingly quaint, with florid mock-Old-English lettering, " From among Ye Bookes of Cleo. S. Eiswasser "-sentences written with a damp pencil on the title pages of schoolbooks ("If my name you wish to see-," "If this book should chance to roam," etc.)- and shudder. Then, perhaps, you happen to go to such an exhibition of bookplates as was recently held at the New York Public Library, and realize that there...
...mention Major James Edward Monroe, youngest son of ex-President Monroe. This quaint old man says that he was born July 4, 1815, in King George. County,. Va. He fought in the Mexican War under General Scott. He came to Florida in 1862 and lives alone in a house boat at the foot of Godwin St., Jacksonville...
...intelligent folk to perform conspicuously idiotic but wholly enthralling feats through 250 pages or more. One's enjoyment of the recent tale of murder and psychoanalysis, from the pen of Mr. Ben Hecht, is neither augmented nor impaired by the eventual disentanglement of its complexities. It is the quaint, initial assassination itself, the atmosphere of brooding horror, the haunted eyes of De Medici, that fling the reader of The Florentine Dagger (TIME, Sept. 3) into a bewildered Nirvana of goose flesh and insomnia. It is the mental gymnastics of Sherlock Holmes or the chemical fumblings of Craig Kennedy that...
...Dunster House book shop was the pioneer organization to settle on the corner. There the discriminating browser could buy mossy antique volumes of the Middle Ages or quaint little English magazines whose price was marked in shillings and charged in dollars...