Word: elfin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the legislators, doddering cheerfully along in pursuit of such problems as the feasibility of serving beer withing 400 feet of a church, had wasted a maximum of time and had thrown the press and populace into confusion. When the bill appeared finally, it was found to contain such elfin provisions as that forbidding beer drinking in a standing position; beer arrived, but sorely hampered...
...hard times. Mischa Elman's sweet, sentimental tones would scarcely blend very well with, for example, the fast-fingered playing of Vladimir Horowitz. It would be difficult to imagine cool, imperturbable Jascha Heifetz teaming with turbulent Ignace Jan Paderewski, or to picture grave Fritz Kreisler playing with elfin José Iturbi...
NOYES (Alfred) The Elfin Artist and Other Poems...
...under way, A matrimonial agency, in a most improbable mix-up, sends to Mr. Huston's doorstep a young girl of nineteen to be his second wife and charwoman. She is not the solid matron that he wrote for, but a Gish girl, all pure and elfin and made for gauzed photography. She is frightened into marriage with Mr. Huston, whose name is Seth Something-or-other, anything but Parker; but it is plain to see that her destinies lie with Seth's more decorative...
...Spanish Iturbi was the sensation of last season. He is an elfin person, called by his friends "Petrouschka." He plays the piano as if he enjoyed it tremendously, takes each phrase separately, polishes it smooth, turns it a dozen ways to catch the different lights. Iturbi will give some 70 recitals this season, appear as soloist with the Cleveland, New York Philharmonic, Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis and Los Angeles Orchestras...