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...these monstrous mites. Midgets are correctly proportioned miniature copies of adults, usually between three and four feet tall, though some (notably the one who was photographed on J. P. Morgan's lap during a Senate investigation last year) are as tiny as 1 ft. 9 in. Midgets bitterly resent being miscalled dwarfs, who are usually misshapen or deformed. Usually born normal, and of normal parents, midgets invariably produce normal children. Though many of the earth's 2,000 living midgets come from Austria, Hungary and Germany, about one-sixth of them are natives of the U. S. Midgets...
...Mississippian, I do resent the unwarranted insults heaped upon the South in general and Mississippi in particular as a result of these hangings (TIME, April 16, Letters), particularly those of one A. J. Smith...
...intentions with proper buoyancy and Lustigkeit. The concertino is in one movement, opening with a jazzy theme and then passing to a brief slow movement; from a grand splash for the piano, a vigorous rondo, interspersed with a recurrence of the previous themes, concludes the piece. Pianists may rightfully resent the use of the "instrument of the immortals" as a mere bundle of hammers...
...Revere alumnus, we resent that. The stirring strains of the school song are still ringing in our ears: "Fight for Revere, boys, Revere will win. Fight to the finish, never give...
...point. They do not go on to admit that, if the law is passed at all, the national bureaucracy could enforce it, and the state bureaucracies might not. They also do not answer the question as to whether the law should be passed. And yet all of them would resent the charge of legalism. POLLUX...