Word: midget
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...attempts at parody of their own professional language. Wrote some technicians stationed at the U.S. Army Air Corps' experimental station at Wright Field, Ohio: ". . . Now that the lid is off, we would like your readers to know that since 1944 no Army plane has taken off without a midget encabulator securely latchetted to the semi-radical baltrop of its estrangulated wickerbill...
...nearly two years the small (circ. 230,000) city -slicker New Yorker and the mighty, midget-sized Reader's Digest (circ. 11,000,000) have been on the outs. In a frigidly phrased communiqué to his contributors in February 1944, wire-haired Harold W. Ross, terrier-tempered editor of the New Yorker, served notice that his magazine was through being Digested...
...bizarre aspects. It had one last week, when Captain Kramer was reported by the Hearst press to be "missing," only to be found within a few minutes at the Navy's Bethesda Hospital (see PRESS). In some ways the investigation might be the biggest Congressional show since the midget sat on Morgan's lap. But at last the facts of the most rankling disaster in U.S. history would be spread on the public record...
Billy Rose, "mighty midget" among Broadway producers, decided to set up a London version of his Diamond Horseshoe nightclub, announced soothingly...
...held out a three-foot-long sweet potato, and Harry Truman gravely inspected it. He laughed at the brash jokes of a midget master of ceremonies, watched a team of husky girl dancers in pink scanties, closely followed three horse races, presented a cup to the winning jockey of "The President Truman Derby...