Word: midget
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...later years, Bill Veeck had second thoughts about his most famous stunt, sending a midget up to the plate in a major league game. "Were it in my power to turn back the clock, I'd never send a midget to bat," he declared two decades after the fact. "No, I'd use nine of the little fellows, including the designated hitter...
...from a giant birthday cake between games of a doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers on Aug. 19, 1951, and stepped up to lead off for the Browns in the second game. As expected, Gaedel walked on four pitches and retired from baseball. Next day the American League barred all midgets. Veeck talked about demanding a ruling on whether Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto, at 5 ft. 6 in., was a short ballplayer or a tall midget...
...body of the e-mail—“obviously [from] someone who was angry”—contained “an explicit midget pornography photograph,” Chalfin said...
...took my address and went to a bunch of online midget porn subscription pages,” Chalfin said, adding that he received another e-mail from the Yahoo! account shortly thereafter informing him of his new subscriptions...
...deliberate anachronisms, and drunken stumblings provide most of the laughs. Many of the jokes are clearly new additions to this translation, which was done by the Classical Club specifically for this production. Most of the jokes are funny, such as the slightly bizarre simile, “like a midget at a urinal, you’re going to have to stay on your toes.” Some are less successful, such as Tranio’s incessant double entendres and a reference to the aid that Philematium’s Wellesley education gives her in her chosen profession...