Word: midget
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...weren't for Swifty a dog race would be little different from a race between eight midget horses. Instead of the classic "They're off!" and the clanging bell soon drowned in the thunder of hooves you hear "Theeeere goes SWIFty!!" and a white, shiny, stuffed, vulgar mechanical rabbit on the end of a pole whirs in front of the hounds, who scramble after in mad pursuit...
...dailies. There were nudes-or almost nudes -running full-page and in every style from hazy photographic to weirdly Beardsley and hard-edge pop. And the reason the models looked so naked was that the merchandise they sported would take up no more space than there is inside a midget's vest pocket. The seasonal subject was summer beachwear, and the uniform of the day was the ever briefer bikini...
...free smokes to friends, sweet-talking nightclub ciggie girls into handing customers only Philip Morris when they'd ordered another brand; by 1933, he was the company's vice president for sales and there created one of the world's most famous living trademarks, hiring midget John Roventini to bawl "Call for Philip Maw-ress." His company never led the industry, but largely because of him it grew from $4,000,000 in 1933 to $400 million by the time he retired...
Sandpile. As Egyptian temples go, Dendur is a midget. It weighs a mere 800 tons, consists of only three rooms and a monumental entry gate, measures 82 ft. from front to back. Nonetheless, more than 20 U.S. museums, appropriately including one each from Memphis, Tenn., and Cairo, Ill., applied for it. The two leading contenders were Washington's Smithsonian and New York's Met, and the jockeying in what became known as "the Dendur Derby" began right from the start. When the White House asked the Smithsonian to name a committee to award the temple, the Met protested...
...exploding is mostly football players. "We're getting more and greater quarterbacks, more and greater receivers," Ara says. "Maybe vitamins are part of it too." Compared to 6-ft. 1-in., 190-lb. Terry Hanratty, Gus Dorais, at 5 ft. 7 in. and 145 Ibs., was practically a midget; he would have had the devil's own time trying to spot Knute Rockne over the heads of today's massive linemen. And how would Rockne, at 5 ft. 8 in. and weighing 145 Ibs., compare with a giant like Jim Seymour? But in college football today, rangy...