Word: lilliputian
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...rogue elephant. As the House Military Affairs Committee reported the bill out last week, it was a foregone conclusion that it would not pass in its present form. At the same time the Congress-which had been squinting at atomic power almost as confidently as at those Lilliputian mavericks, the budget and the tariff-suddenly admitted to itself that it did not know what to try next. The monster seemed to be getting bigger, more red-eyed and more terrifying with every passing...
...Mouse. The grandiose works were concerned with the bigness-and the grossness-of man. A different, delicately hilarious Dore talent found expression in his cartoon history of Holy Russia with its Lilliputian kings and knights...
...starvation or the dole for the 2,000,000-odd people who normally supply, produce, sell and repair automobiles. Against such a Brobdingnagian reconstruction problem the immediate question of who was to stand the loss if a $4,000 machine is melted down for $40 worth of scrap seems Lilliputian, but this could give WPB a very bad time too-as WPB well knows...
When they worked in the Lilliputian Village at the New York World's Fair all last summer, 26 German midgets had no idea what was in store for them this winter. En route to Genoa after the Fair, all 26 were intercepted in the Mediterranean by a French cruiser. Last week ten of them were discovered in a French concentration camp 20 miles north of Marseille. Married midgets had been allowed to proceed, but the rest were interned because, said a French officer in charge: "Those little fellows would make ideal spies. . . . They could hide almost in a desk...
...such is the story of Putzi, a premature baby who lived in a jar of alcohol on its parents' mantelpiece, became a hero when his father discovered he was a perfect barometer, sinking to the bottom on approach of bad weather, bobbing to the top, with "a Lilliputian smile and rosy cheeks," at the approach of fair...