Word: gnomish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State of Siege. In the future of The Netherlands, the underground expects to play a powerful part, and exiled Queen Wilhelmina has already recognized its strength. When she and her Prime Minister, gnomish, pink-&-white Dr. Pieter S. Gerbrandy, return to Holland, they will carry a three-stage plan: 1) underground leaders will be given places in the Government immediately; 2) the country will be kept in a state of siege until the Germans and their Dutch collaborators are purged, the war with Japan finished; 3) when conditions permit, in the Queen's and Cabinet's view...
...wants has been a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. Now the Southern Democrats are interventionist almost to a man and Republicans are hopelessly split. Isolationist Senators Wheeler, Taft, Nye and Clark might filibuster; House isolationists might balk-but two men held all the cards this week: 1) prognathous, gnomish Representative Sol Bloom of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; 2) austere, pompous Senator Walter George of Georgia, his opposite number in the Senate...
Louis McHenry Howe, gnomish "no-man" to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died in 1936. Since that time only one man has consistently said "No" to the President-and last week he said...