“The little man on the wedding cake.”

—  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Describing Thomas E. Dewey, Harry S. Truman's Republican opponent, as quoted in The Washington Post (22 May 1951); also attributed to Walter Winchell.

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American writer and prominent socialite 1884–1980

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