Word: gnome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...board room of Jersey City's First National Bank one day last week sat handsome, strapping Oscar Cintas, a long Cuban cigarette between his slim fingers, a sleekly rolled umbrella between his well-tailored knees. Across the table, and nervous under Oscar Cintas' blazing black eyes, sat gnome-like Charlie Hardy. Jampacked in the room were some 125 A. C. F. stockholders, come to the annual meeting to see Hardy and Cintas, no longer friends, have...
What the National Republican Committee did at this juncture could scarcely have been improved upon by some playful New Deal imp. Instead of "liberal" Mr. Simpson they elected to Mr. Hilles' executive seat the apple-headed little gnome from Delaware, whom name-calling Harold Ickes calls "Proxy Dan, the Du Pont man"- ex-Senator Daniel Oren Hastings, than whom no man in Congress has a more reactionary record. As a sop to "liberals" they gave the one other executive vacancy to South Dakota's Harvey Jewett...
Service de Luxe (Universal). During the regime of benign, gnome-like little "Uncle Carl" Laemmle, corpses were so prevalent in Universal productions that they became practically the company's trademark, and every sound stage on the lot was a makeshift torture chamber. Under its new board of directors, headed by saturnine Banker J. Cheever Cowdin, Universal has completely reversed its trend. Instead of Boris Karloff, today its top star is Deanna Durbin. Instead of morbid criminology its forte is a peculiarly blithe brand of girlish comedy of which Service de Luxe is the latest sample...
Standing 5 ft. 1 in., he looks like a good grey gnome...
...child art in Spain. Displayed at Lord & Taylor's department store were about 1,000 drawings and watercolors by Spanish children, collected in Valencia and Madrid and shipped to the U. S. to raise money for the Spanish Child Welfare Association. In charge of the exhibition was a gnome-like, darting little Austrian-born Spaniard named José A. Weissberger, who describes himself at present as "a nobody," having been an insurance solicitor for 35 years in Madrid...