Word: elfing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several breathless seconds officials could not precisely state the whereabouts of Statesman Hughes. But he was not found squashed under dazed and groggy Poland. With the quickness of an elf, little Billy Hughes had dived under the ringside bench just before the Pachyderm landed. "I've always been spry," smiled Statesman Hughes as he crawled...
...James is neither cracked nor a spiritualist, but years ago he invented the hypnotic question, "You do believe in fairies, don't you?"; and ever since some people have enjoyed making believe in Peter Pan or fairies or anything else favorably presented to their notice by Elf Barrie. Last week it was Mary Queen of Scots. The bazaar was in her honor. Proceeds would go to a fund for the purchase and preservation of a house in Jedburgh where Her Majesty once lay sick abed...
Sternly pure (99 44/100%) is Procter and Gamble's Ivory Soap, famed for floating. The Gold Dust Corp., makers of Fairy Soap, appeals to an elf-loving public with the query: "Have You a Little Fairy in Your Home?" Solid qualities of comfort, scents of the Orient (Cashmere Bouquet), are stressed by Colgate...
...Dunning, who was supposed to have had an important part in the writing of the raucous and exciting Broadway, is billed also as the co-author of this thing. The discrepancy between his two brain children is not nice to contemplate. The second is about a pale and gawky elf who wins a scenario-writing prize, comes to Hollywood, is besieged by unscrupulous women who want him to get them in the movies and is finally permitted to claim the hand of his own true sweetheart. Those in whom a severe spanking might cause concussion of the brain will...
...Miracle she had won recognition as a pantomimist. Now she was called upon to speak for the first time in her career?and in a strange tongue before foreigners. Cast with her were such clearly Teutonic actresses as Katta Sterna (Puck), Maria Solveg (Titania), Tillie Losch (First Elf), Christa Tordy (Helena). Miss Pinchot never once stuttered...