Word: gnome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these circumstances, Elizabeth Bergner's performance is on the order of Monologist Ruth Draper's. She is first seen as an ingenuous gamin, pigeontoed, stealing sweets and spinning an incredible yarn about her eventful life, which includes the experience of motherhood. Then she is the wise little gnome keeping willful Sebastian Sanger, her lover, from taking his brother Caryl's girl. She seems to lose stature, shrivel up with unhappiness as Sebastian's mistreated wife. And her little body expands miraculously with an almost majestic grief in the short scene following her baby's death...
...morning she arrived at the Junior League's club house, initiated a course in current events which she will conduct for Todhunter School this winter. That afternoon she opened an exhibition of ValKill furniture at her town house. Later she met Col. Louis Howe, the President's gnome-like little handy man. and according to Washington report, picked out his winter wardrobe...
Married. Paul-Louis Weiller, wealthy French director of the Gnome and Rhone Motors Co.; and Alice Diplarakos, Greek winner of the 1930 "Miss Universe'' title; in Paris. Witnesses: Author Paul Morand, Poet Paul Valery, Diplomat Philippe Berthelot. No witness was Graeco-American Wrestler Christopher Theophilus (Jim Londos), once reported engaged to Alice Diplarakos...
...Disastrous Policy." Scabrous French weeklies called Philip Snowden a "nasty little gnome" and worse when, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he held out for a few more millions at The Hague Reparations Conference and returned to Great Britain as a national hero (TIME. Sept. 9, 1929). Last week it was this same Philip Snowden, now Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, who precipitated the nasty crisis, caused London's Laborite Daily Herald to headline prematurely LORD SNOWDEN WRECKS THE CABINET...
...other man was doing it he really could not understand." Then there is Yirgil Cristea, a baker whose reputation as a solid, sober citizen makes him a little sad. To divert his melancholy Author Baerlein persuades him to don a horsetail for a beard, pretend he is a gnome. But as gnomes are known to milk other people's cows, the two of them must milk cows too. Unfortunately the cows in this part of the country are buffaloes; unfortunately the buffaloes will not rise to be milked. But for the first time in many years Baker Cristea...