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Tom Thumb, a Tragedy
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Tom Thumb, a Tragedy, a farce by H.
Fielding, performed and published 1730, and published in a different version 1731 under the title of
The Tragedy of Tragedies, or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great. This is an exuberant farce in the mock-heroic manner, ridiculing the ‘Bombastic Greatness’ of the fashionable grandiose tragedies of authors such as N.
Lee and J.
Thomson, and similar in form to Buckingham's
The Rehearsal. It was published with a frontispiece by
Hogarth. (See Heroic Drama.)
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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TOM THUMB HAS BIG IMPACT ON COMMUNITY.(Neighbors Cayuga)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 7/24/2003; 700+ words
; ...input on this article. This summer, Tom Thumb celebrates its 25th year under the...summer of 1978, Tom and Carm bought Tom Thumb Drive-In from Tom and Bernice Boyhan...valued customers, over the years Tom Thumb has grown. In 1985, Tom Thumb enclosed...
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Safeway-Owned Tom Thumb to Drop Texas Specialty-Supermarket Concept.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 9/27/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...decades apart, that's the conclusion Tom Thumb has made about its Simon David specialty...department, a pharmacy and a bank. "The Tom Thumb name has more name recognition...more awareness in the market for Tom Thumb than there is for Simon David...
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Safeway Changes Management in Texas; President of Tom Thumb Chain Exits.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 6/14/2001; 700+ words
; ...management in Texas, leaving out Tom Thumb's most visible Dallas executive...served as president of Randall's/Tom Thumb since the Safeway acquisition in...president of operations, will lead Tom Thumb operations in Dallas, Safeway said...
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 "Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)")
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Tom Thumb's boots nab $3,045 on eBay.
Newspaper article from: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT); 12/7/2006; 700+ words
; ...boots that legendary Bridgeporter Tom Thumb may have worn during his days as...authenticity is the lack of proof that Tom Thumb actually owned or wore the boots...hundreds of items in its collection of Tom Thumb memorabilia: clothes, furniture...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Tom Thumb chain files for bankruptcy.(BUSINESS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 3/11/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Byline: Thomas Lee; Staff Writer Tom Thumb Food Markets Inc., which recently...convenience store chain in 1957, is among Tom Thumb's largest secured creditors. Pettit...574,000. It's unclear how Tom Thumb's bankruptcy will affect the financial...
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Some Shoppers Abandon Tom Thumb Stores after Boar's Head Pulls its Cold Cuts.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 7/14/2001; 700+ words
; ...yanked its cold cuts recently from Tom Thumb stores, Kroger quickly published...lunch-meat competition continues, Tom Thumb is serving up Primo Taglio to anyone who will try a free sample. Ads for Tom Thumb and Kroger tout their cold...
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"Go, Get Your Husband Put into Commission": Fielding's Tom Thumb Plays and the Labor of Little Men
Magazine article from: The Eighteenth Century; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Grand-mamma hath often said, / Tom Thumb, beware of Marriage" -Fielding...underscores the sexual joke by linking Tom Thumb's "thumping" stature-"thumping...for Huncamunca but great danger for Tom Thumb, who risks not only physical discomfort...
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DEDICATED GUIDE GIVES LIFE TO CIRCUS CELEBRITIES TOM THUMB EXHIBIT 'PRESERVES THE PAST'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/15/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...collection of General and Mrs. Tom Thumb memorabilia as a favor...wedding photo of Tom and Lavinia Thumb, Beals still guides museum...86. "The lady who did Tom Thumb moved away. My husband said...Association, died in 1997. Tom Thumb's ties to Middle borough ...
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Intellicall Adds Tom Thumb to Growing List of Retail Outlets; More Than 1,000 Retail Outlets Offering Intellicall Phone Cards.
Business Wire; 9/24/1997; 700+ words
; ...major retail outlet. Intellicall now lists Tom Thumb Food Markets Inc., of Hastings, Minn...label prepaid phone cards from Intellicall. Tom Thumb will sell Intellicall phone cards in its 129 Tom Thumb Food Markets and 10 Bonkers stores in...
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 "Guelph Mercury (Guelph, Ontario)")
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Carte de visite shows Tom Thumb and his wife Lavinia.(here)
Newspaper article from: Guelph Mercury (Guelph, Ontario); 4/11/2009; 700+ words
; ...original photo of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb in their wedding costumes and it...the back by Charles S. Stratton (Tom Thumb) and his wife, Lavinia Warren...CAPTION(S): Photo: Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb; Photo: brass letter holder; Photo...
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Tom Thumb
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tom Thumb 1838-83, American entertainer, whose original...Bridgeport, Conn. His career as General Tom Thumb began in 1842, when the showman P...displayed the general in many countries, bringing Tom Thumb wealth and fame. At the age of 10 the...
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Tom Thumb, a Tragedy
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Tom Thumb, a Tragedy, a farce by H. Fielding , performed and published 1730, and...under the title of The Tragedy of Tragedies, or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great . This is an exuberant farce in the mock-heroic manner, ridiculing...
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Tom
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...Dick, and Francis’ in a similar sense. Tom o'Bedlam a madman, a deranged person discharged...Edgar disguises himself as the mad ‘Poor Tom’. Tom Thumb the hero of an old children's story, the son of...
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Robbins, Tom
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...Boise State University, 1980; Tom Robbins: A Critical Companion...Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1997. Tom Robbins comments: I sometimes...as an eccentric regionalist, Tom Robbins with his first two novels...hitch-hiker with monstrous thumbs. Most of the second half is...
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Oedekerk, Steve 1961(?)–
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...1998. Executive producer, Bat Thumb, 2001. Executive producer...Executive producer, The Blair Thumb, 2002. Executive producer...Thumbtanic, 1998. Wuce Bayne/Bat Thumb, Bat Thumb, 2001. The Godthumb...Warner Bros., 1995. (With Tom Shadyac) The Nutty Professor...
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