Word: midgetism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though most midgets who earn their own living do it by exhibiting themselves, Authors Bodin & Hershey list midget architects, realtors, brokers, restaurateurs, watchmakers, musicians, playwrights. Smallest midgets in the U. S.: Adele Ber, 9, of 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...
...confused with the caucus room of the Senate Office Building where the midget sat on John P. Morgan's lap last June...
Potshots at the President-elect, a bank holiday, a many-decked New Deal, a World Fair, Mae West, the midget on Mr. Morgan's lap, Repeal, Rolphing- last year they all laid headlines across the country, inked rotogravures, filled newsreels drumtight and gave Vanity Fair's (then) Cinemacritic Pare Lorentz an idea. With an eye on Laurence Stallings' photostory, The First World War (whose pictures have boomed in more than 50 newspapers-TIME, Feb. 26), Cinemacritic Lorentz edited the pictures of the first New Deal year, pictures of the war on Depression. Last week he published...
Opposing pitchers are likely to find it difficult to pitch to Mike Hovenanian. The midget, selected as a prospective leadoff man, won't offer at a ball unless it's right in the slot, and he's so small that the moundsmen haven't much of a target at which...
...compel department stores to stock ready-made midget clothing. Proudly the Midget Hitler claimed that he had 250 members of his league already, announced an international congress for 1935, when 10,000 midgets from all over the world are to assemble in a Budapest bowling alley...