Word: midget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Midget Albie Booth silenced critics who claimed Yale was saving him for the Army, Harvard and Princeton games. He eeled through for one touchdown and dropkicked a 25-yd. field goal while he and his friends were beating the Brown huskies who had beaten Princeton the week before. Yale 21, Brown...
...Herbert ("Bantam") Austin, maker of sturdy seven-horsepower midget cars, crowed like a full-sized rooster last week over the British Institution of Automobile Engineers of which this year he is President...
...British public is using cars which are less efficient and less comfortable than those used by the public of any other country! Britain seems to have no automobile export trade except for high-priced or midget cars and presumably never will as long as the system of taxation compels British manufacturers to design inefficient machines...
...Midget Albie Booth wore stockings last week for a change, but they did not interfere with the two long runs he made for touchdowns. Yale beat a good Maryland team...
...wheedling as the voice which one imagined would be used by Mrs. O'Grady, the keeper of a petshop, who was really a man and the leader of a band of thieves. Her grandson, whom customers observed cuddled up in a perambulator, was really a sly and wicked midget. It was unpleasant to imagine the shrill, false pipe in which such a monstrosity might have whispered to his cronies. As a talkie, The Unholy Three is less hair-raising because its sounds have become explicit. Lon Chancy still impersonates Professor Echo, a ventriloquist in a carnival who, when...