Word: midgeted
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Undergraduates rose in loud defense of tradition. On the evening after the announcement, some 2,000 of them, carrying torches and chanting "We want Derby Day!," marched on the residence of Yale President Whitney Griswold. Said Griswold from his front porch: "The question of Derby Day is a midget [compared with Yale's other concerns] ... I love a riot ... I loved them when I was an undergraduate ... I can yield to no one the record of smashed light bulbs . . . But I will not discuss university policy with...
...answer to shouted questions about the fate of Derby Day, Griswold answered: "There's a big question hanging over this University. Can we continue as a private university? Compared to this, the question of Derby Day is a midget...
...routine, unspectacular, competent, journeyman script . . . with maybe a fresh twist no bigger than what you give to a lemon peel in a Martini." In TV, the writer is even less important: he "must step aside for Gorgeous George, Garrulous Godfrey . . . westerns, British films from the bottom of the vault, midget autos, roller-skating derbies . . . kitchen and fashion demonstrators, giveaways, and the upper slopes of Faye Emerson." But if he is willing "to curb his imagination" and to look on the medium as "a trade outlet, not an art... it's a living...
...Clark Jones, Polaroid Corporation physicist, said his machine, a small four-tube device similar in appearance to the inside of a midget radio, automatically silences a radio during commercial announcements. It turns the set on again when music returns...
...gotten headlines for his welfare and labor work. But 68-year-old Justice Pecora was remembered as the fearless Government counsel of the senatorial investigation of Wall Street in 1933, which not only led to the Securities & Exchange Commission but produced a deathless picture of J.P. Morgan cuddling a midget on his lap. And anyhow, New York is a Democratic town...