Word: bantam
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...first, because the stout old bantam cock couldn't reach the man-size micro phone, his gravelly voice grated away in a scratchy whisper for nearly a minute, to great choruses of boos and shouts of "louder!" from Mayor Kelly's men. Then the P. A. operator lowered the microphone, and Glass's hoarse whisper filled the stadium: ". . . An incomparable Democrat ... a man on whose word every human being can always rely. . . . Thomas Jefferson. . . . Since I have been sitting on this platform I have had two anonymous communications objecting to Jim Farley because he is a Catholic...
...Bantam LaGuardia said, "Phooey!" (TIME, March 4). The trouble with the political wise boys in all generations is that they are unable to recognize new issues and the men that fit them. Around 1858 another bantam, Stephen A. Douglas, about the size of Little Flower LaGuardia, looked at Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and he said, "Phooey!" Result: he stood holding Abe Lincoln's hat at the next inauguration. Little Flower is just too close to Buster to see his stature...
...crack at all the G. O. P. Hopefuls came from independent Republican Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York City's bantam-cock mayor. Withdrawing his name from the Illinois primary ballot, on the excuse that he did not want to divide the liberal vote,* the Mayor said: '. . . I went and saw a movie called Abe Lincoln in Illinois and I looked over the present crop of Republican candidates-phooey...
...George VI when he visited the front before Christmas, France's Generalissimo Maurice Gamelin rode his special train to the town where Great Britain's General the Viscount Gort has his chateau-headquarters. With crack detachments of the Welsh Guards and 8th French Zouaves looking on, the bantam Generalissimo stood on tiptoe, lifted his stubby grey mustache and brushed it brusquely against both cheeks of: 1) towering General Sir Edmund Ironside, Britain's Chief of Imperial General Staff; 2) more reachable Lord Gort. In the name of President Lebrun he pinned on each the Grand Cross...
...oldest Senator there was a little bantam-built man with a crabwise walk, a cock-crest of white hair, a mouth that seems to snarl even when he weeps-the Old Dominion fireball, Carter Glass, 82, of Lynchburg...