Word: gnomish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friendly, 59-year-old Scottie, with a nose as bulbous as one of his own gnomish ink faces, had been scratching pictures to amuse himself ever since he was a boy in the slums of Glasgow. After he moved to Canada 19 years ago to run a secondhand furniture shop, he found that he could attract customers by drawing in the window. One day Scottie's drawing attracted Bookbinder Douglas Duncan, who bought his pictures, helped arrange a one-man show in Toronto. By 1946 Scottie had moved on to London, become a hero to Horizon. Critics hailed...
Facing Aft. Few men had seen more Pacific fighting than gnomish, taut "Pete" Mitscher. He had commanded the Hornet, from which Jimmy Doolittle launched his B-25s to bomb Tokyo in early 1942. He had fought through the Solomons. For over a year he commanded Task Force 58, spreading destruction from the Ryukyus to New Guinea. In one nine-month period it sank 88 warships, 282 merchant ships, and destroyed 4,425 planes...
...Albertine used to splash. Clark Kerr's bedroom has dark walnut paneling under a royal blue border with gold flow ers. The paneling is covered with gnomes, dwarfs, beggars and oilier baroque gremlins. (Clark Kerr tells friends he wants an air gun so he can shoot gnomes.) Gnomish Viacheslav Molotov is cautious too. He presided at the first session of the Foreign Ministers' meeting, is sued a communique saying only that the Three had met. (The London conference had wrangled for hours over Molotov's insistence on uncommunicative communiqu...
...Japanese homeland has been left "wide open" by U.S. victories in the air, on the sea and on land in the western Pacific, said Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher last week, when he returned to California for a 30-day leave. Gnomish "Pete" Mitscher, dried and puckered by wind and sun, brought back the staff which had helped him plan and execute a historic cleanup of Jap ships, planes and fighting men. In nine months (Jan. 29 to Oct. 27), his fast carrier task forces of the Pacific Fleet - operating part of the time as Task Force...
...subject for musical comedy, the frail, dreamy character of the real Edvard Grieg was more musical than comic. But Song of Norway's librettists depict the gentle, gnomish composer as a heroic genius whose fidelity to Norwegian folksong and his Norwegian wife is threatened by the wiles of an Italian countess named Louisa Giovanni. She represents the cosmopolitan musical culture of sophisticated Europe. Grieg, though tempted, sticks to Norway, and composes his greatest work, the Piano Concerto in A Minor. So ingratiating are the familiar, lyrical Grieg melodies in which this flimsy plot is dressed that last week three...