Word: elfish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys" do come back, greeted by an elfish faced woman, with a Saint Patrick's Day smile. In her green dress, and with her thin white hair pulled back. Mrs. Corballis has served dessert for more than eight years. Before coming to the Union, she worked at the Central Kitchen and the Medical School. Her specialty in the freshman dining hall is dessert, served with a smile, and garnished with "Hello sweetheart, how are you today...
With a loud flourish of trumpets, the Liebmann Breweries (fourth largest in U.S.) announced that next year's Miss Rheingold, elected over some 1,200 other sudsy beauties by the nation's beer-lovers, will be elfish Nancy Woodruff, 21, a homespun girl from Oakland, Calif. But what really made Nancy newsworthy was her affinity for fluids: she was last year's Miss Anti-Freeze...
Catherine Luce's set, with its tiny buildings, evokes the elfish, mystic atmosphere intended by Yeats. The bare stones and columns of the Fogg museum Court form a stage that is ideal in effect, if not in flexibility And in Purgatory, the starkness of a single block of stone in the center of the dimly lit stage is appropriately forbidding...