Tom Thumb

The American showman, businessman, and politician best remembered for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus and for promoting celebrated hoaxes, such as the Feejee Mermaid, the Cardiff Giant, and Tom Thumb’s Baby.

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Tomatoes such as Early Girl, Roma, Health Kick and Tom Thumb are some of the common compact tomato varieties that work well for containers, he said.

Of all the fairy-tale references to draw from, she chooses to liken them to “Tom Thumb who, like the body of the Black boy, is caught inside a swallow cycle … over and over again.”

Jefferson denounced Washington's speech as “shreds of stuff from Aesop’s fables and Tom Thumb. ”