Word: dwarfishness
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...louder. Strings and woodwinds whispered spookily. Jones, tired by running, sank to the ground. His feet hurt him. He pulled off his boots and fanned his toes. His stomach was empty. He hunted vainly for food which he had hidden under a white stone against just such a time? Dwarfish forms like tree-stumps started moving towards him, ha'nts which frightened him so that he drew his pearl-handled revolver, fired at them...
...miss previews we can now know exactly the emotional effect of any film, can cut out the 'dead' spots, and generally improve the pictures distributed." A live spot in Frankenstein as revealed by the "Lie-Detector": one in which the ugly face of Frankenstein's dwarfish assistant pops up from behind a graveyard fence. Dead spots: the reappearance of the dwarf's face in subsequent scenes when familiarity has made it less frightening...
...horse for U. S. heavyweights, rushed out of his corner in Montjuich Stadium, Barcelona, and tried to hit Primo Camera, Italian Brobdingnag. His swing was short. Camera stretched out a long left hand and set him back on his heels. Squat, hairy-chested, his gold teeth gleaming in his dwarfish face, Paulino in his perpetual crouch, with his elbows swinging, resembled some kind of beetle that Camera, punching almost vertically, was trying to crush. He sidestepped many of Camera's left leads but could not get out of the way of the ponderous rights aimed at his body. Camera...
...excerpts from official reports. Moving maps give unity to shifting offensives, tiny cavalry in the huge honeycomb of the Carpathians. German soldiers grinning and eating apples as they marched to an imaginary banquet in Paris, airplane battles, mine explosions, Von Hindenburg chewing his mustache, the Kaiser, with his dwarfish, withered arm held sideways, looking gingerly through a telescope, Russians annihilating a last nest of snipers in a taken town; you find to your surprise that diagrams can be more exciting than even such an excellent War-picture as The Big Parade...
...maid and her princely lover, acted and sang their parts to the satisfaction of the audience, Mr. Sheafe's serenade in the second act being particularly good. Mr. Cowdin's song, "Awfully Clevah," was well received. The part of the dwarf, Rumplestiltskin, was played by the by-no-means dwarfish Mr. Donaldson; but, as it was hardly suited to him, his success was not so great as in the Friday performance. The costumes were capital, particularly those of Messrs. Story, Donaldson, and Twombley, and that of Mr. Churchill, who made a most Mephistophelean detective, and whose appearance closely resembled that...