Word: midgeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blushing amateurism of Harvard sports leaves you cold, Boston is a big enough town to supply professional baseball, dog racing, horse racing, midget auto racing, and wrestling by both men and women...
...prefer watching professionals exert themselves, the Braves and the Red Sox cavort at least once daily, the horses run every day except Sunday, and the midget auto cars are only a short way out of town...
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...