Word: mite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 of the current Civil War, a grudging eight...
Meanwhile on Dec. 15 minute Finland was again the only European state to pay in full, her mite being $229.623. Again Britain chipped in the largest token...
Adequate though small is Engelbert Dollfuss. Last week the mite of a Chancellor (4 ft. 11 in.) who holds the balance between Austria's raging Nazis and scarcely less irate Socialists, decided that what he needed was a whopping gallows. Not since 1920, when the death penalty was abolished, has there been such a thing in Austria. Engelbert Dollfuss called carpenters. With a mighty thwacking they built in the gloomy courtyard of Vienna's district jail a monster gallows "adequately tall," said to be the biggest ever reared in Austria...
...list, and additions thereto during the New York campaign. All of which merely reinforces Castor in his previous conclusion that Mr. Roosevelt is getting to feel encumbered by Secretary Farley, who, although he served well by the free lavish of his trick for inflaming Rotarians last November is a mite too fast on the trigger for political comfort. The anti-Tammany democracy would have done more wisely if they had supported LaGuardia and forgotten the specious McKee, for the Major will be too heavily saddled with his colleagues to undertake any really unpleasant reforms, and would thus combine safety...
...tempted beyond my powers. Each reply to that pompous ass, Husband Ritter, has broken down my resistance until I find myself following in the footsteps of Maynard L. Ginsburg (TIME, July 3) and writing my first, last and only communication to any magazine, in order to contribute my mite to the avalanche of criticism he has brought down upon himself by that moronic letter. Freaks, indeed! Down with TIME, then, to make the world safe for Husband Ritter and his ilk. For as long as that splendid magazine exists, there will be appreciative, intelligent and up-to-the-minute freaks...