midgie
Britishnoun
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Midgie Fannon suggested filing a class-action lawsuit against the rate increase and alleged unsafe conditions and lack of maintenance at the ferry and dock.
From Washington Times
Young-hearted Midgie Purvis has long embarrassed her family as a kind of card-of-all-work, and when her son begs that she meet his fiancee and her family in decorous matronly style, she decamps instead.
From Time Magazine Archive
In that spirit, Actress Tallulah Bankhead last week lamented to a New York Timesman that she will soon be forced to journey west to begin rehearsals for her first Broadway appearance since 1957, the title role in Midgie Purvis, a new farce by Mary Chase.
From Time Magazine Archive
The doctor briskly pulled on a white coat and shot a rapid greeting at his youngest patient, a moon-faced ten-year-old: "Hello, Midgie, I hear you got a new football for your birthday."
From Time Magazine Archive
Names like "runt" and "half-pint" and "midgie."
From Project Gutenberg
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