Word: bantam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought U. S. investors, that President Roosevelt's personal representative in Havana, hard, able Mr. Jefferson Caffery, put through a little "garage diplomacy."* Mr. Caffery had not been idle. Shifting from President Grau, on whom he first used suasion, he conferred repeatedly last week with Cuba's bantam generalissimo, ex-Sergeant Fulgencio Batista who commands the entire army with the modest rank of Colonel. According to correspondents, "Caffery read the riot act to Batista." Out to the army post at Camp Columbia hurried Batista and most of Cuba's politicos, excepting Surgeon Grau who shut himself...
...Pauline Lewis who set a women's record of 25 ears. Ed ("Korn King") Kottwitz won the men's championship with a world's record of 37 ears. Last week at the festival, with two dozen waitresses rushing supplies from steaming boilers chocked with Golden Bantam corn, Mrs. Lindstrom, 71 and every tooth her own, beat Pauline Lewis, 22, by one ear with a new women's record of 45 ears. Ed Kottwitz kept his championship by chomping down 50 ears...
...overhead may be interested to know that they can see this afternoon's struggle between the 150-pounders for the delightfully pro-war price of 50 cents. Although no brass band will form letters between the halves and no movie camera will record the affair for posterity, the bantam-weights are expected to give their all. In other words, it looks like a regular, old-fashioned, back lot game of football...
...Charles Conklin, a farmer of Sussex, N. J., has a bantam rooster with four wings. The extra flippers are attached to the rooster's legs. When the fowl runs he kicks up as much dust as a rotary plow and when he hops into the air he looks like a biplane...
...little Dr. Adler always kept remembering how humbled and humiliated he had felt as a child. His family had been poor. He had been small, nervous, frequently ill, had resented his schoolmates' bullyragging. As with many another bantam, power became his goal, intellect his tool. He devised a theory: "The striving for superiority and the sense of inferiority go together in every human being. We strive because we feel inferior, and we overcome our feeling of inferiority by successful striving...