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Beside the piano rests demurely the very stool upon which sat "that dissolute midget, Commodore Nutt," when he held his once world famous conversation with P. T. Barnum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Thumb's House | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...Nutt: "No, sir; my fruit is plucked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Thumb's House | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

Barnum: "You don't mean to say you will never marry?" Nutt: "No, not exactly." Barnum: "I suppose you intend to marry one of your size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Thumb's House | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...Nutt: "I am not particular in that respect. I think I should prefer marrying a good, green country girl to anybody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Thumb's House | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

Then again, in No-Ape Tennessee, Heretic John T. Scopes hearkened to alarming cries of Gospel-Truth Norris, winced under the hyperorthodoxy of the Baptist tsar from Texas. Mr. Chipps, according to Dr. Norris and his disciple, L. H. Nutt, refused to leave the parson's premises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baptist | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

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