Word: dwarfing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Columbia. Thence, with almost convincing regularity, have come tales of Okanagan Lake's "Ogopogo"-a mighty serpent "with the face of a sheep, the head of a bulldog" (TIME, Aug. 15, 1932). And thence last week came two descriptions of a phantasmagoric sea serpent big enough to dwarf the 30-foot Ogopogo...
...directs Dave Chasen to drop down to the corner for some cigars, at the precise moment that Chasen disappears through a trap door. In his mayoral office is a statue which, when dusted, sneezes. He calls for his running pants, and a pair of trousers, propelled by an invisible dwarf, trots across the stage. He occasionally pauses to rattle off, in a manner as modest and conscientiously ingratiating as a hotel clerk's, the most fantastic monologs. One has to do with his career...
...organizations, but are merely units in larger organizations which he called galaxies of galaxies. The nearest of these galaxies, he said, is eleven million light years from here. It is situated in the constellation of Coma and Virgo. It contains about 250 constituent galaxies. These are galaxies of a dwarf type. They apparently measure only from five to twenty thousand light years in diameter...
...prepared to hear Heaven-storming, epoch-making music last week. Carpenter kept his emotions well hidden even when describing the death of the poor, ugly dwarf in The Birthday of the Infanta. Reticence marked his Song of Faith, played widely last winter in celebration of the Washington Bi-Centennial. The ballet Skyscrapers, proved, too, that Carpenter's expert craftsmanship serves him best in light, colorful music, unburdened by big ideas. But Patterns, with its sentimental waltz bit, its brief Spanish interlude, its sketchy piano embroidery, was almost anemic, its reception by critics and audience cool...
When Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) has Jane Parker in his den, the picture really gets into its stride. The ground below the trees becomes alive with tigers, lions, zebras, waterbucks, crocodiles and savage dwarfs. Tarzan is a match for all of them. When a member of the Parker expedition shoots him in the head, he is too tough to mind it and shows his stamina by immediately strangling not one lion but two. When the savage dwarfs capture the members of the Parker expedition and are gleefully preparing to feed them to a large gorilla, Tarzan effects a rescue. He gives...