Word: midget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political career began in 1919 when he became Member No. 7 of the midget German Labor Party. Discovering his powers of oratory, Hitler soon became the party's leader, changed its name to the National Socialist German Labor Party, wrote its antiSemitic, antidemocratic, authoritarian program. The party's first mass meeting took place in Munich in February 1920. The leader intended to participate in a monarchist attempt to seize power a month later; but for this abortive Putsch Führer Hitler arrived too late. An even less successful National Socialist attempt?the famed Munich Beer Hall Putsch of 1923?provided...
...mint where radio's catch phrases are coined, a busy worker is Adman Milton Harry Biow. In association with Arde Bulova some eight years ago he put the radio on Bulova Watch time. Three years later, for Philip Morris, he took Midget Johnny Roventini out of a hotel lobby, put his treble "Call for Philip Morris" on the air. After 20 years in advertising, the same 20 years in matrimony, intense, jittery Milton Biow boasts that his two loves remain his business, his wife...
...luxe "camping" on the beach is this season's big fad on the once-again-prosperous French Riviera. One hotel leased an entire island, which it promptly covered with tents. Another, at fashionable Cap d'Antibes. has put up tents in its gardens, erected a string of midget-sized bungalows on its beach. Despite the spacious comfortable hotel rooms only a few yards away, diplomats, statesmen, cinema celebrities have preferred to live like beachcombers in abodes which for the most part lack plumbing, hot water, screens...
...Lazy A ranch at Santa Susana, Calif., Producer Buell started filming the first all-midget photoplay ever made. He had troubles. The flaccid little people tumbled off ponies, had trouble handling man-sized six guns, had attacks of temperament and sunburn. Finally, at a cost of almost $100,000 and many a headache, the film was finished...
...later Midget Joe Scott, 22, 3 ft. 4 in., 40 lb., applied for a license to wed Torch-Singer Mae Britt...