Word: midget
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...meant that the yacht-racing season had begun again in Eastern waters. Soon the boats of the other classes -the graceful, low-leaning "S" boats with their big spread of canvas, the shorter "Victory" boats (single-masted crafts with self-bailing cockpits, easy to handle in rough weather), the midget "Fish" and "Star" classes, 15-footers in which yachtmen's young sons and younger daughters dabble and pull ropes and get wet-soon these, and all the other bright pleasure craft of the Sound will be brought out of boathouses and moored at the ends of private jetties, ready...
Walter de la Mare has written an exquisite story of a midget. It is not a pleasant story, for pitiful stories are not pleasant stories. And the "Memoirs of a Midget" is very and sincerely pitiful. No one has written the life of Zip the "What Is It" to whom Barnum gave fame. Dickens gave a name, and the public gave the vital interest of its perpetual indecorum. But now that Zip is dead and the fellowship of freaks takes on the vestments of usual mourning the need of such a memoir becomes less remote. Zip should be perpetuated...
...likes his vicarship with lambent sincerity, who knows enough of life to misunderstand death--he is exact and competent, more so than can usually be expected in stock productions with red asbestos curtains and singleton orchestras. Miss Newcombe as the formidable Mrs. Clivedon-Banks; Miss Ediss as Mrs. Midget, romanticist atheist--they do not quite approach reality. The one is too boisterously appreciative of the buffoonery in her part; the other is too tautly expressive of the emotive possibilities of hers. Yet it is but fair to admit that they are attempt-a tremendous undertaking. This "painted ship upon...
...Cream of Celery Soup, Mince Meat, Plum Pudding, Fig Pudding, Peanut Butter, Cooked Spaghetti, Cherry Preserves, Red Raspberry Preserves, Peach Preserves, Damson Plum Preserves, Strawberry Preserves, Pineapple Preserves, Black Raspberry Preserves, Blackberry Preserves, Crab Apple Jelly, Currant Jelly, Grape Jelly, Quince Jelly, Apple Butter, Preserved Sweet Gherkins, Preserved Sweet Midget Gherkins, Preserved Sweet Mixd Pickles, Sour Spiced Gherkins, Sour Midget Gherkins, Sour Mixed Pickles, Chow Chow Pickle, Sweet Mustard Pickle, Dill Pickles, Sour Pickled Onions, Preserved Sweet Onions, Sandwich Relish, Spanish Queen Olives, Spanish Manzanilla Olives, Stuffed Spanish Olives, Ripe Olives, Pure Spanish Olive Oil, Tomato Ketchup, Chili Sauce, Beeksteak...
Especially does he so inquire if he is an artist--not the mental midget of pseudo-aesthetic tendencies, but the occasional person who wants to create rather than criticize, to build rather than to fresco other people's buildings with the rococo delineations of his embryonic criticism. He is mentally tired. He has learned that better writers, painters, musicians than he can ever be have not only preceded him, but have left their art for the catalogues of word epicures and the text books of higher criticism. The flames do or do not leap high in his fire place...