Word: barnumism
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...house, built half a century ago, stands far back from the street, masked by huge trees. There memories foregather. There Charles S. Stratton, exploited by P. T. Barnum as "General Tom Thumb," dwelt with his wife, that delectable midget, the onetime Lavinia Warren...
...Managed" by Mr. Barnum, the General repeatedly toured Europe, became famous in Manhattan as a midget man-about-town who could afford to keep his own ocean-going yacht. "Tamed" by his "dearest Lavinia," Tom Thumb settled down at Middleboro, ordered built for her the house which straightway became a local show place...
Since the Thumbs entertained Mr. Barnum frequently, as well as many another mortal of normal size, the house is of conventional dimensions but contains two sets of furniture, one "midget," one "lifesize...
Beside the piano rests demurely the very stool upon which sat "that dissolute midget, Commodore Nutt," when he held his once world famous conversation with P. T. Barnum...
...Barnum: "Are you married yet, Commodore...