Word: midget
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Mrs. Helen L. Howerton, mother of Major Mite, 18-year-old Ringling-Barnum midget; to Robert H. Crawford, Ringling-Barnum ticket-taker; in Boston...
...Ireland tonight. . . ." Father Quinn thought of the fishermen who went out upon Galway Bay in wretched, unsubstantial tarred-canvas boats- the only boats they could afford. Hatless, he raced out of his house and down to the shore to give warning. From the shore he looked out at the midget fleet, already almost invisible on the quiet swell...
...tale of Tom Thumb is even better. In his account of the midget's triumph in Europe, P. T. Barnura tries hard to be nonchalant in his talk of Queen Victoria, Baroness Rothschild, and continental royalty, but he simply can't--and who could--and his amiable strutting only makes the story the pleasanter...
...fled to the roof of the house. I found a policeman, was able to identify one Charles Logan when he was captured. Said I: "I was lucky." Charles Logan had an ugly knife.'" Edward of Wales: "In London smart young dancing men have been observed smoking 'midget cigarets,' half standard size. The fashion was attributed to me under headlines: 'BETWEEN-DANCES FAGS MADE TO PLEASE WALES.' I have a midget cigaret case." Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole: "In Havana, the Gaceta de Policia displayed the picture of a face with notice...
They destiny drew in together, two in jet, A dealing in silhouette — and planned their future life, including nests, eggs - And midget ravens with requests...