Word: midget
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would come the 15 other battleships, stretching back six miles to the Pedro Miguel locks where the Florida (oldest and fastest of them all) would be chafing to get put. Then about one mile of light cruisers; then the submarines- almost a hundred of them-with their vanguard creeping midget-like through the yawning Gaillard Cut;* then another five miles of 106 pert destroyers impatient for the open sea; finally the submarine chasers, the mine sweepers, the airplane carriers, the colliers, the oilers, the cargo ships, and the last hospital ship struggling in the Gatun Locks. And up above...
...part of him which seems to overweigh, though not to overbalance, his short, active frame. Seen by himself, he looks quite in proportion; seen against a background of other figures he suggests those pictures that cartoonists like to manufacture-a grave, photographed face, under which have been drawn a midget body, arms, and legs. Power often lives most bristlingly in little men. Mr. Wiley gives one immediately a sense of power, poised and acute. He has spent his life, beginning with a three-dollar-a-week job on a Rochester paper, in newspaper offices. He has more social contacts than...
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...
...Thumb's midget piano has been kept in tune, stands ready to accompany that piping tune with which the General delighted Queen Victoria: Yankee Doodle...
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...