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Word: elfin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentle overture to January's five power naval conference, the British Foreign Office issued a "White Paper" last week.* Bearing the signature of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Arthur Henderson, it was strongly reminiscent of the quixotic reasoning of James Ramsay MacDonald in his more elfin moments. Discussing that bugaboo of Anglo-U. S. naval agreement, the question of Freedom of the Seas and rights of neutrals in wartime, the paper read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: White Paper | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...leggins, seems a more appropriate impersonator of Peter Pan than Eva Le Gallienne. It was not therefore surprising to find that, as produced by the Civic Repertory Theatre, Peter Pan was a little studied and that Eva Le Gallienne seemed cool-headed and energetic rather than cumbersomely elfin in the name part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...beginning Rautendelein was just a pale, elfin creature who lived in a German wood at the bottom of a well. She was really no being at all, just a light, pagan spirit who kissed men's eyes and made them well. And as such she came to Gerhart Hauptmann who put out his fingers swiftly and caught her for a play about a village bellcaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sunken Bell | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...their first "children's party." But so well did they play cricket that they lived down the velvets. Harold careered brilliantly at Cambridge (financed on his brother Jonathan's small inheritance) while his brother Jonathan worked his way through the local medical school. Both brothers loved elfin yet extremely modern Edie-Harold blithely, Jonathan desperately. Came the War with a smart uniform for Harold, a curt injunction that Jonathan continue as invaluable village doctor. His constant helpmeet was Rachel, dark-eyed beauty, but he kept reminding himself that calm brunettes were not his type -too unlike Edie. These...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doctor's Difficulties | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...James Matthew Barrie, elfin creator of Peter Pan, stood up at a bazaar, in Jedburgh, Scotland, last week, and solemnly informed his audience that on the previous night he had walked hand in hand through their village with the late Mary Queen of Scots (died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Seeing is Believing" | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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