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Word: midget (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John G. Thompson of Kremlin, Va. is a little (3 ft. 10) but hefty (115 Ib.) Negro. When it comes to fighting sin, he is a mighty midget. Last week, before spellbound revivalist crowds, he demonstrated his pious art at Milwaukee's St. Matthew's Colored Methodist Episcopal Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Midget Revivalist | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...Other anniversaries of the week: Chicago's WLS (16 years), producer of National Barn Dance; "Johnnie" Roventini, midget trade-mark (seven years) of Philip Morris cigarets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fibber & Co. | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...happy to be home, and admitted it. A reporter referred to the 13-hour Gibraltar delay while British searched the Conte di Savoia for Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, once Nazi Minister of Economics. Newsman: "Was Dr. Schacht in your trunk?" Grinned Mr. Welles: "Just like Morgan's midget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Return of Welles | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...three Sonny was wearing specially tailored, midget-sized tuxedos that cost the Yules $55 a suit. At four Sonny was a has-been. Age was robbing him of his infantile cuteness. It took him almost a decade to get it back again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Success Story | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Miss Bankhead has recently become familiar with a Russian midget, who appeared last summer at the World's Fair. "Don't quote me," she said, "but I really love him. His name is Andre Ratoucheff, and he always seems to be fleeing a revolution. He was chased out of Russia by the Soviets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tallulah Bankhead Reveals Hatred of 'Communist Producers,' Love of Andre | 3/7/1940 | See Source »

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