Word: zipping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter de la Mare has written an exquisite story of a midget. It is not a pleasant story, for pitiful stories are not pleasant stories. And the "Memoirs of a Midget" is very and sincerely pitiful. No one has written the life of Zip the "What Is It" to whom Barnum gave fame. Dickens gave a name, and the public gave the vital interest of its perpetual indecorum. But now that Zip is dead and the fellowship of freaks takes on the vestments of usual mourning the need of such a memoir becomes less remote. Zip should be perpetuated...
Numerous befreckled urchins sorrowed for a moment last week, at news that Zip, the "What-is-it-Man," widely popular in sideshows, lay ill of pneumonia at Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan...
...mature persons Zip has always been lacking in appeal. His sharply domed cranium, monkey-fur suit, and ingrowing personality, seem all too slight an excuse for the sizable cheques which he has drawn for many years from the Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circus...
...certain class not easy to define Zip possesses, however, a strong appeal. Recently one of his admirers, a swaggering white tusked rough, burly and begrimed, cried out: "Zip's a gentleman! Lots of freaks spits in most people's faces that they don't like, but Zip hardly ever does...
...player, has signified his willingness to match tunes with the Maine player. Bob claims to have over one hundred different pieces, where Mellie has only three or four, but the piccolo player declares that with a little practice he can become profficient in "Turkey in the Straw" and "Old Zip Coon" as well...