Word: midgeted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Republican Party (Clement); "the chief function of the Vice President should not be that of a political sharpshooter for his party. It should not be that of providing the smear under the protection of the President's smile" (Candidate Estes Ke-fauver); "the White House pet midget, Moby Dick Nixon and his whale † of a pup, Checkers" (Kerr...
Britons are still apt to regard both Americans and Australians as colonials without much culture. In his eigth novel, British Author Nevil Shute has set up a kind of midget contest between these two "uncultivated" cultures. The contest arises when a bunch of American oilmen arrive in Australia's spinifex country (so named for its tough desert grass). The Australians are astounded by the Americans' ability to set up ice-cream plants in the desert, to work like madmen for oil in a country that probably lacks it and, anyway, needs water more. The Americans, in turn...
...bones tragically brittle, Henri crippled himself in a childhood fall. His sporting father, the bewhiskered and kilted Count, was so annoyed that he all but disowned him. But Henri became a living legend in Paris of the '90s. He was a fan of the cycle tracks (making a midget velodrome of his garden paths, on which he pedaled madly with his toy legs), the horse tracks, brothels, Lesbian joints and cafes. Out of frustrated love for the world of theater and action denied him by his deformity, he created the art of the poster, celebrating popular idols in designs...
Died. Walter de la Mare, 83, famed myth-and-mystic British poet (The Listeners), novelist (Memoirs of a Midget) and short-story writer (Seaton's Aunt), whose intensely personal vision earned him membership in the Order of Merit, an honor limited to 24 living persons; of a coronary thrombosis; in Twickenham, England. A delicate, meticulous stylist, shy, ruddy-faced De la Mare was best loved for his children's tales and verses-some as chilling and profound as a child's daydream, others as sensitive and whimsical as the man himself. (Said Poet W.H. Auden: "A child...
...million offer was twice the value of the shares. Under the conditions laid down by the Cabinet, Texaco must operate the refinery at full capacity and step up oil exploration on the island. Trinidad Oil produces about 8,000,000 bbls. of crude annually but is a midget in the international oil industry. Yet no British firm was in shape to buy it, or provide the funds to expand it. In the long run, Texaco's expansion plans would mean increased U.S. dollar investment both in Britain and in underdeveloped Trinidad. Said Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan...