Word: midgeter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Compared with most federal outfits, the Bureau of Narcotics is a midget. It operates with only about 300 agents, spends a piddling $4,400,000 a year. Yet it has a punch that far belies its size-and that punch has made it one of the most controversial organizations in Government. The controversy is over the bureau's insistence, in its relentless and efficient pursuit of narcotics pushers and lawbreaking addicts, that narcotics is chiefly a law-enforcement problem-a view often criticized by doctors and others who believe that addicts ought to be treated as patients instead...
...finger at "bad counsel and bad judgment"-not to mention slow horses and fast divorces-compact Cinemactor Mickey Rooney, 41, hove into Los Angeles Federal Court under a luxury-model debt and filed for bankruptcy. Having earned some $12 million in a career that began when he portrayed a midget at the age of five, Rooney claimed assets of $500 in personal effects, debts of $464,914, including $116,512 in back taxes, $22,950 in back alimony to three of his four ex-wives. "From now on," pledged he, "I'm going to watch things a little more...
...years of electronics study. The biggest of her new in struments, the large bass, and the small est, the treble, are still causing trouble. It would take a seven-foot man to play the large bass unless she can somehow alter its proportions while retaining the tone; only a midget could play the treble. "At the moment," says Mrs. Hutchins, "we're up against the human physique...
Eagle, who once towered over a troupe of 187 little people, now has to make do with only one midget-Felix, the smallest Perfect Man-who sells the World's Tiniest Bible for 25?. The sideshow's giant, Eddie Carmel-the World's Largest Giant-allows children to take a huge ring off his finger for 25? a take. They get to keep the ring-Eddie's supply is endless. According to Eagle, Carmel would be 18 inches taller than he looks if he could straighten up; he is billed at straightened-up height...
...Communists then forming Soviets in towns all over northern Italy. He believed that the factories should be taken over, all right-but that he should take them in the name of Italy. To little King Victor Emmanuel III, he seemed to promise order in a chaos of revolutionaries; the midget monarch asked him to take charge...