Word: midgeter
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...Mighty Midget. Billy Rose Exposition Spectacles, Inc., which leases the Marine Amphitheatre from New York State and the Fair Corp., has no one on its payroll quite so spectacular as Billy Rose. His pressagent, Dick Maney, has dubbed him The Mighty Midget, The Mad Mahout, etc! A competitor once remarked that Rose's definition of a "myriad" was 18 girls, but that is only one of his accomplishments since he was born Rosenberg in Manhattan, 40 years...
...lower East Side, were bothered a lot by Walter Ferguson, 45, an unemployed handy man who lived on the third floor. He had religious fits. He shouted a lot, preached the doctrines of Father Coughlin. The only person who could quiet him was Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Schneider, 55, a midget who lived on the fourth floor...
...policeman tried to tackle Ferguson, but the mad man, wet and slippery, kicked him away, kept his grip on the midget until she was dead. Fox got three more policemen; Ferguson fought them with chairs, a table, his teeth. They had not subdued him when, suddenly, he stopped fighting, fell dead of a heart attack...
...department store basement of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., Powel Crosley Jr. this week put his new midget automobiles on sale. First purchaser: Mrs. W. Averell Harriman. Box score for first day's sales: four coupes ($365), twelve sedans ($389), no trade...
...miles an hour, and runs 50 to 60 miles on a gallon of gasoline. Two quarts of oil fill its crankcase, four gallons of gas its fuel tank. At $325 for the coupe, $25 more for the sedan, it will undersell by $62 the only other U. S. midget on the automotive market, the American Bantam...