Word: gnomes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coed's prayer is a king or snow job. Many a coed, dating up a storm, gets snowed (or sewed) for an infatuated spell called snow time (if her king is too cool, she may have to shovel out the snow). During this romance, only a bad-mannered gnome or mullet would try to hook a snake (ask for a date with the snow king's queen). But should some crude dormitory barbarian crack this campus canon, the dethroned king has been shafted or jabbed, barbed by the purple shaft or the maroon harpoon. In despair he feels...
...penniless and alone, when he arrived in 1906 from Russia. A gnome of a man, Charles Fraiman put a pack on his back and peddled old clothes from door to door in the outskirts of Philadelphia, until he had enough money to buy a horse and wagon and go into the junk business. He used to say he made $1.50 a day-50? for his horse, 50? for himself, and 50? for his savings...
Died. Fletcher Pratt, 59, bearded, gnome-like military-affairs expert, prolific writer (The Marines' War, Empire and the Sea, Secret and Urgent), onetime newspaperman, military librarian, and military analyst for TIME; of cancer; at Long Branch, N.J. Born into a military family, Pratt also indulged in such encyclopedic interests as raising marmosets, cracking codes, inventing war games...
...strikingly different figure dominates the whole party: a thick little man, in a dirty, rumpled suit, with tousled hair on a bulging gnome's head, who is swigging boilermakers. He is also roaring out stories, laughing, pinching the girls, charming all who push into range of his eloquence...
...determinedly stripped to her white petticoat. Otherwise, Salome emerged as the great opera it is, its nervous, passionate music brilliantly conducted by another newcomer to the Met, the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Dimitri Mitropoulos. With his long arms and shiny bald head making him look like a gnome in the orchestra pit, he turned the Met orchestra into a raging, powerful instrument that swept the action along at peak excitement...