Word: fantham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Professor Harold Benjamin Fantham and Dr. Annie Porter, McGill University zoologists, came upon a Quebec "family of little women" none of whom was more than four and a half feet tall. They were all well-proportioned, strong, vigorous and promiscuous. For cohabitants they invariably selected little men by whom they bred little children. This family drew a report in last week's Eugenical News...
Zoologists Fantham and Porter "have been trying to improve their status and to keep various members out of trouble." Most exasperating are Generatrix Charlotte's twins Genevieve and Albertina, who are 25 or 26 years old, 3 ft. 11 in. tall. "No amount of coaxing, flattery or bribery will induce them to let us take photographs or to sketch them. An explanation of this dislike of photography perhaps may be that provided by Albertina. . . . She flashed on the writers and announced: 'Give you my picture? A photo? Not me! The last chap I gave my picture to showed...
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