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Word: midgetess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yonkers, N. Y. (1 ft. 6); Lya Graf, 32, Ringling performer and Morgan lap-sitter (1 ft. 9); Clarence Chesterfield Howerton ("Major Mite"), 26, of Oregon (2 ft. 6). Best-known midget of all time: Charles Sherwood Stratton ("Tom Thumb''), who died in 1883, after marrying Midgetess Lavinia Warren. The New York Illustrated News gave his Manhattan wedding (1863) 23 columns; to news of the current Civil War, a grudging eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mites | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

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