Word: gnomes
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...descended upon London and environs. It was not a "London particular," but sufficient of a fog to make Philip Snowden, the Crippled Chancellor, hero of the pan-European money-squabble at The Hague (TIME, Aug. 12 to Sept. 9), look more gnome-like than ever as he stumped on his canes into No. 10 Downing St. for one of the most special Cabinet meetings in recent British history. Gnome-like also, or like a maimed goodwife from the fairy books, looked motherly Margaret ("Aunt Maggie") Bondfield, the Secretary of Labor, who had to be helped from her motor by chauffeur...
...cold as well as unfit. Yet when Bill was killed in a laboratory explosion and Raphael came from Manhattan for her, she married Raphael and together they went traveling in Europe. By him she conceived at last, and a blood transfusion failed to save her life. An oracular gnome called Bolonowski, whose delicate embroidery seems to exude from her body like spider-thread, helps the author explain that these events are "a counsel to eagles, and a warning to their despoilers...
...usual selection for the outside page is hopefully encouraging. I had about concluded that your art editor was a hopeless, bilious pessimist, for however passable the originals of his selections may have looked in the flesh, when the lineaments were transferred to the cover they generally resembled a gnome, gargoyle or anthropoid...
...also draws, in a cottage of crazy-quilt architecture, under an old beech, an elm, and near a business-like workroom devoid of all "arty" furnishings. Sitting at his drawing board with his round, glittering spectacles and clean-shaven ascetic countenance, he looks very much like a village deacon, gnome-like brow, repository of his inspiration and technique, is revealing feature. Years ago drew political cartoons for Punch and The Graphic. Lately he been called "court painter to King Oberon and Queen Titania...
...obsolete flag of the Imperial Russian Navy under the Tsar. Upon this were the crossed sword and scabbard once belonging to Lieutenant Islamoff. Glistening from a verdant cloth at one end was the golden star and crescent of Islam. As his bier rested on the three burned-out Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors of the demolished plane, Mullah Hussan, a Mohammedan priest, read with tears in his eyes the funeral service from the Koran in a voice like "that of a man speaking while trying to stifle a sob." After the service, again the bearers raised the coffin, marched the forty...