Word: midget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Lois De Fee, 19, onetime bouncer in Manhattan's Dizzy Club who stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs 190 lb.; to 3½-ft., 79-lb. Midget Bill Curtis, 29; in Miami...
...pound midget can find a partner his size under Lamar's new plan, and the man of 200 pounds likewise will be able to find a behemoth of his dimensions...
...sometimes fuzzy lithography. Nevertheless, the pictures' cumulative effect makes the book exciting. The wild turkey, giant among U. S. birds, struts proudly across Page 1; the duck hawk drools blood in a savage excess of appetite; a little mockingbird cries defiance into the gaping mouth of a rattlesnake; midget warblers perch in a currant bush; the white-bellied booby stares; a least bittern chants in a voice "like a mourning dove imitating a pied-billed grebe...
...Benny, Jimmy Durante, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Mrs. Zeppo Marx and many another own horses. Clark Gable used to own one named Beverly Hills. Victor McLaglen (see p. 40) is Colonel of the Victor McLaglen Light Horse Troop, whose 750 members finance their maneuvers partly by promoting rodeos and midget auto races. Ralph Bellamy and Charles Farrell own the Racquet Club at Palm Springs. Minor promoters include Johnny Weissmuller (the paddle-board concession at Catalina Island) and Errol Flynn (six day bicycle races...
...nation's most progressive industry displays new and wonderful improvements in U. S. mankind's most basic luxury. Improvements in 1938 automobiles are. however, neither new nor wonderful. Cars look virtually the same as last year, save for a few refinements of streamlining. Only one newcomer, a midget car named Bantam, makes its debut. Mechanical advances are meagre...