Word: elfin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true that Lohr, an elfin man who at 73 still runs the museum, shamelessly believes in the old showman's rule of "Ya gotta get 'em in the tent." Every exhibit clamors for the attention of the passing public-and then goes on to hammer real knowledge into the heads of people ranging in age, as Lohr puts it, "from two to toothless." The museum, which just received its 50 millionth visitor, is probably the world's biggest institution of informal, nonobligatory mass scientific education...
Principally responsible for the B. & O.C. & O. merger is C. & O. President Walter Tuohy, who this week also becomes chairman of the B. & O. Tuohy, 62, an elfin onetime coal salesman who outmaneuvered New York Central President Alfred Perlman in persuading B. & O. stockholders to join with him instead of Central, plans to save $50 million annually by integrating operations. Seaboard President John W. Smith will run the new Seaboard Coastline Railroad, which hopes ultimately to save $38 million yearly, partly by eliminating 4,200 jobs along its frequently overlapping routes...
...most popular Tory leaders, elfin-faced, effervescent Viscount Hailsham, last week followed the example of former Lord Home, signed away his titles and became the Right Honorable Quintin Hogg. Leaving the "political ghetto" of the House of Lords, he will probably be elected to Commons from St. Marylebone, a solidly Tory, London constituency. "Lord Hail-sham," said he, "is dead. God bless Quintin Hogg...
...brood who live as innocent squatters in a big, old-fashioned house in the country. Walt has flossed it up with lively songs, a glossy assortment of period gewgaws (a red Stutz Bearcat, a steam locomotive, a pianola), and Hayley Mills, who bolsters the little plot with elfin enthusiasm...
...speech-elaborately phrased, rich with allusions-sounds like another language amid the staccato din of the New Frontier's verbal shorthand. With his ironic, self-deprecating wit, he often appears to be some misplaced elfin uncle among the intense young men who laugh at their well-worn house jokes only rarely-and hardly ever at themselves...