Word: moppetous
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...past six months, a six-year-old moppet named Twinkle Watts has humiliated thousands of husky U.S. bowlers. Her high game: 218. Last week, during a cross-country barnstorming tour, bowling's tiniest demonstrated her skill in Manhattan for the benefit of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Using a regulation 10½lb. ball, just one-fourth her own weight, Twinkle bowled three games, averaged...
...world, itself a mere 300-year-old moppet in the history of art, last week met and ogled a baby brother. The baby brother was Australian art, a bouncing 150-year-old. The meeting took place on the ground floor of Washington's pink marble National Gallery, where a thousand curious visitors assembled for the opening of the first comprehensive exhibition of work by Australian painters ever shown...
...long ago Mr. Sherdeman was called by an indignant mother who denounced him for putting her eight-year-old child into hysterics. He asked to talk to the moppet, soothed the child by telling her Latitude Zero was not really true. Then he suggested to the mother that she had only to turn a small knob on the radio to keep her child from getting overwrought. "Oh, sure," the mother said, "but how am I going to hear it then...
...familiar features of the Iraqi political landscape. Sportive, fast-driving, ham Radioperator King Ghazi I survived three. Since 1939 when Ghazi wrapped roadster and self around an electric-light pole, Iraq's ruler has been his son, King Feisal II, a sloe-eyed moppet of five. Regent has been Faisal's Anglophile uncle, weak-chinned Prince Abdul Illah. In 1940, Prince Abdul Illah quashed one would-be Army coup by seizing the Iraqi telephone service and rusticating two uppity generals...
...serial characters of our time have excited such mixed emotions as Fanny Brice's Baby Snooks. Regarded by some as a loathly brat, by others as a most comical moppet, Snooks has been a mainstay of the Maxwell House Good News show since December 1937, currently attracts, with the help of Frank Morgan, the latest thing in Munchausens, an audience estimated at about...