Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Willem de Sitter, 62, famed astronomer, mathematician and cosmologist of Leyclen University; of pneumonia; in Amsterdam...
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...fell in love with a beauteous sitter named Mutzli Koch, wife of a Düsseldorf doctor and art collector. They ran away together. After her divorce Dix and Mutzli were married and so were Dr. Koch and Mutzli's sister. Now the two families are friends, visit one another...
Though most midgets who earn their own living do it by 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...
...Returning from a fishing trip that summer, Shoemaker stopped one night at a dance hall which reeked of Wartime spirit. Bunting and flags aroused his ire to such an extent that he refused to stand up when "The Star-spangled Banner" was played. The crowd, observing the lone sitter, moved toward him in mass formation, growling, ugly, threatening...