Word: overweigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vaudeville team, courtly, Ochs feeding gag-lines to impish Wiley; they would have made a handy pair of tumblers, big Ochs tossing tiny Wiley through a hoop. If the latter event had ever taken place, Wiley would have landed on his head, a part of him which seems to overweigh, though not to overbalance, his short, active frame. Seen by himself, he looks quite in proportion; seen against a background of other figures he suggests those pictures that cartoonists like to manufacture-a grave, photographed face, under which have been drawn a midget body, arms, and legs. Power often lives...
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