Word: midget
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horde of Eliot House softball champs raced down to Soldiers Field in midget cars, took baffled Lowell by surprise and steamrollered out an 18 to 2 win. Balding Stu Bartle paced the team's hitting with four singles, three of them scratches...
...your sanity in a well-advised prologue (with a glimpse of Producer Ken Murray and a couple of other human beings), settles down to its real business and drifts serenely out of this world. The actors and extras, in this astounding film are 200-odd birds - mostly midget parrots. The bird actors whistle, or appear to whistle, jazz obbligati. They wear bow ties and little hats, operate a streetcar, a taxi and a hook-&-ladder. They live, it is painful to report, in a town called Chirpendale, whose main intersection is Birdway and 42nd Street...
After the show, Mickey mused: "Who knows, maybe they'll call me the midget Orson Welles...
...Cheaper Midget. Automaker Powel Crosley cut the factory price of his midget Crosley sedan...
...Other Tribulations reprints his grandstand reports of three notorious murder trials (Hall-Mills, Snyder-Gray, Arnold Rothstein), plus the spicy matrimonial case of "Daddy" and "Peaches" Browning, the suit for income tax that sent Al Capone to Alcatraz, and the Senate investigation of the House of Morgan (complete with midget). Last but not least, the reader will have ample opportunity to put Runyon himself on trial and observe the technique of a brilliantly smart operator...