Word: gnomish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well he knew that he had many friends in & out of the Senate, yet no intimate friend, was even now as lonely as Franklin Roosevelt since the death of crabby, brilliant, gnomish Louis McHenry Howe. Coldly he could figure that this was a fight he must win, for not simply the Presidency but his Senate seat was at stake. Many a Michigan boss would like to see a more employable man in Washington...
...Landon and Franklin Roosevelt (see p. 13), for a sportswriter gloating over the winning spurt of the New York Giants. A letter arrived from the editor of Beauty Shop News requesting that a conference be held on "The Relation of Beauty to Human Behavior." The New York Times'?, gnomish, imaginative Science Writer William L. ("Bill") Laurence outdid himself by coining a word, "macroscope" (opposite of microscope) by which he imagined the 72 combined brains focused as one instrument upon Man and the Universe. Platoons of newshawks backed stammering notables into corners, pressed them for one-syllable explanations of profundities...
While he lived, the nation hardly knew that Louis McHenry Howe had a wife. Quartered like a bachelor in Abraham Lincoln's White House room, Franklin Roosevelt's gnarled and gnomish No. 1 Secretary was a member of the private as well as the official Presidential family, spent more time in Washington than he did at home in Fall River, Mass...
...called National (but in fact Conservative) Government (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Always the King is represented as a tower of moral strength, aiding his conscience-torn Scottish Prime Minister to decide between Labor and the Nation. Last week this pristine royal legend was rudely spattered. At it gnomish, crippled Philip Snowden, splenetic Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, heaved the clods of his second volume of autobiography...
Faces were glum at the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment last week. Ruefully, prominent propagandists admitted that autocratic President Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank had just put a severe crimp in the world-wide activities of their club-footed idol, Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, gnomish Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment...