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...acorn of the mind that spins like a top, turns suddenly into a busy little brownie and goes bustling off into the grass. Let "proud Titania" glide through a glade, does she flutter like any common fairy? No, she is borne on a whispering bejeweled wind of minikin glittering wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well Met by Moonlight | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...Only innovation at this year's National is a pony-jumping class for juveniles (under 17), a popular feature at Southern horse shows. Most of the entries are owned and ridden by minikin members of Virginia's hunt set, the youngest of whom is four-year-old Terry Drury, who has already scampered off with several blue ribbons on her three-year-old Punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Women, Children & Horses | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...weeds which she does not like to destroy because she thinks them pretty. In Maman Savage's parlor is a nickel-&-dime bank for contributions to the Ellin Prince Speyer hospital for ani-mals-in memory of her cat, buried in Hartsdale Cemetery beneath a tombstone marked "Our Minikin." Stately and white- haired, Maman Savage wears sombre silks, heavy ornaments, a gold-rimmed pince-nez. But she is as keen-eyed and lively as any youngster, joining gaily in such Metropolitan pranks as tickling fat Tenor Lauritz Melchior in Parsifal. "He is so ticklish! So he always says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Old Girl | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...physical culturists have shown only mediocre pitching and very little hitting strength, though in the latter respect they outhit Amherst 10 to 5. In Minikin they possess a clean-up batter of no mean efficacy, for in eleven trips to the plate he has slashed out no less than seven hits of assorted sizes. Either Crowley or Beach will toe the rubber against the Crimson this afternoon, the latter having the only Springfield verdict to his credit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRINGFIELD FACES PUFFER'S HURLING | 5/5/1926 | See Source »

HARVARD SPRINGFIELD Jones c.f. l.f. Jenkins Zarakov 3b. c.f. Shanks Ellison r.f. 3b. Wright Todd l.f. l.b. Minikin Tobin 1b. r.f. Erickson Ullman or Chase 2b. 2b. James Sullivan s.s. s.s. Berry Chauncey c. c. Elliott Puffer p. p. Crawley or Beach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRINGFIELD FACES PUFFER'S HURLING | 5/5/1926 | See Source »

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