Word: midget
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...down a pair of Tom Thumb steps, sits down at a portable piano and sings the tuneful theme song, "Hold Your Horses," to his mare Magnolia. When he refers to Magnolia's heart of gold a flap opens in her side, displaying a large gilt heart. A midget in a tiny horse's suit runs out on the stage with Magnolia's dinner pail, a feedbag full of oats. Broadway Joe takes the bag, pats the midget, blandly remarking: "That's her son. This is her fodder." Assisted by uncouth Dave Chasen, Mr. Cook finally removes...
...Pierpont Morgan, the world banker, whose hobby, my little readers, is gardening but who also loves midgets, money and other 'm' words, like muchness." Thus did Vanity Fair in its current number dedicate "Vanity Fair's Own Paper Dolls," a new one-page feature. In the centre of the page was a drawing of Mr. Morgan in underclothes (see cut). In the four corners were costume patterns to fit Mr. Morgan's moods. One was a tattered brown suit, patched with green and purple, which hung loosely on a headless figure holding in his hands...
...midnight almost any Midway visitor should have had his fill of the charming Belgian Village, the educational Gorilla Village, the miniscule Midget Village, complete with midget jail, midget court house, midget barber shop. He will have been sufficiently aghast at the monstrosities in C. C. Pyle's and Robert Ripley's "Odditorium," sufficiently thrilled by the dizzying Sky Ride. He will have banged his bones on the breath-taking Cyclone Safety Coaster and the Flying Turns, a toboggan which makes its twists through semicylindrical tunnels. He surely will have wearied his feet after viewing the Pantheon...
...little voice shrilling with delight, the midget was finally escorted back to her own circus and the Senate's great side-show went on. Banker Morgan's partners stared in astonishment at their friend who up to last fortnight would only rarely suffer himself to be photographed. When Senator Fletcher, committee chairman, heard what had happened, he denounced it as a ''damned outrage," ordered the Morgan-midget films suppressed, telegraphed newspapers not to use them. When few obeyed, he barred cameramen from the committee room. The week prior Senator Glass, denouncing the committee's helter...
...least." Without effort the Hearst Press pointed to the Morgan list as proof of the existence of a SECRET SUPER GOVERNMENT. Baltimore Sun's Cartoonist Duffy drew a picture of a small Uncle Sam sitting on a giant Morgan's lap and captioned: "A Midget Gets a Thrill...