Word: midget
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Unholy Three. It was President Wilson who used to read detective stories to ease his mind. He would have liked The Unholy Three. It is a crook tale about a ventriloquist, a midget, a strong man, a sap and a girl. The very complicated plot, the murder, the trial and the solution are too intricately contrived for reworking here. They contain hate and happiness, diversion and distress. Lon Chaney plays a ventriloquist who turns into a grandmother...
...crash of Empires and the falling of crowns, which seemed a logical result of the War, Turkey was a main link in the concatenations of stupendous events. For better or for worse, Turkey became a republic, a midget of a state compared to its former self; all the old panoplies of government were thrown overboard. The Sultan-Calif fled for his life. A new Calif arose; but the Sultanate was ground to dust by the puissant heel of Democracy. It was to be only a matter of time before the sole of the same foot was to crush the Califate...
...announcing this step, merely avowed that armaments are useless to small nations, for they are allowed to use them only as the pawns of great powers. He argued that disputes between small nations must henceforth be settled by round table discussions or by arbitration between the backers of the midget countries. If not, their Lilliputian quarrels will again serve as pretexts for gigantic struggles whose real sources lie deep in the persistent rivalries of the great powers...
...Berlin, a company received orders for 40,000 "midget sets" invented by one Otto Maresch to retail for $1.75. "Persons walk the streets with receivers adjusted to their ears, hear concerts, news and political speeches." In Dallas, it was announced that "Texas has a new club whose members never see each other's faces." The North Texas Radio Phone Club meets on Sunday afternoons; "each member answers to roll call, speaks in turn while the others listen in." In London, it was announced that the possibility of transmitting radio messages in a "beam"* between England and Australia is "likely...
Fannie it is who first made the midget her slave. ". . . the silence was broken by a clear voice, like that of a cautious mocking-bird out of a wood . . ." Then there is Mr. Anon., who gives his life for the midget. Mr. Crimble, Mrs. Monnerie, Polly, and a host of others, not to mention Sir Walter Pollacke who was such a wise friend to Miss M. and who as her executor published these Memoirs...