Word: midget
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...afternoon last week in Washington, tremulous, treble voices poured into a midget microphone and around the world. Forty-one children of foreign diplomats, attending a Christmas party in the Hall of Nations at the Washington Hotel, joined in the annual broadcast. A few of these diplo-moppets were panic-stricken, but most stepped up with little prompting and rattled off their Christmas pieces, twice-once in their native tongue, once in English...
When he began to croon, Lewis Reid of the Morris agency asked Character Actor Irving Kaufman to assume the role. Plump, pink-faced, freckled, balding, Kaufman, who as a small boy once played a spurious Russian midget in vaudeville, has portrayed Lazy Dan for Old English Floor Wax, Happy Jim Parsons for Air Conditioning Training Corp., Johnny Prentiss for Gruen Watch Co. He boasts that he has made more phonograph records than any other singer, having worked for 22 companies under ten different names. On the radio he has played as many as twelve characters in one sketch. But until...
...game, yards of bandage unraveled from his hand. Manager Frisch stopped the game, learned to his amazement that Martin was playing with a broken finger. "Aw," said Pepper, "it's only a small bone." He horrified the Cardinals' President Sam Breadon by playing football and racing midget autos in off hours...
...substitutes a cud of cut-plug for his Beech-Nut. He regards chewing tobacco as a safer habit than cigaret smoking. "When you smoke cigarets," he points out, "you're likely to burn yourself to death; with chewing tobacco the worst thing you can do is drown a midget...
...will not be compelled to sing it. ... Almost every veterans' outfit and Minute Men organization in the land open their meetings with it. ... Portland (Ore.) used it for the floral theme of its annual Rose Festival. ... It is played at all Brooklyn Dodgers home games, at the midget auto races at Castle Hill Stadium in The Bronx, at bingo games, and it was a standout feature of the President's birthday balls.... At Sheboygan, Wis., a local ordinance makes it a must at all band concerts along with America, The Stars and Stripes Forever, and The Star-Spangled...