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Word: dwarfish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excerpts from official reports. Moving maps give unity to shifting offensives, tiny cavalry in the huge honeycomb of the Carpathians. German soldiers grinning and eating apples as they marched to an imaginary banquet in Paris, airplane battles, mine explosions, Von Hindenburg chewing his mustache, the Kaiser, with his dwarfish, withered arm held sideways, looking gingerly through a telescope, Russians annihilating a last nest of snipers in a taken town; you find to your surprise that diagrams can be more exciting than even such an excellent War-picture as The Big Parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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