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- 1948 — Robert C. Ruark, I Didn't Know It Was Loaded, Doubleday & Company (1948), page 138:
- For a nickel, a mental midget with the musical appreciation of a hog can unleash the forces which wrecked Jericho on people who are embarked on a valuable analysis of the nation —an analysis which, though priceless beyond pearls, is lost in the amorous lowing of Sinatra.
- 1950 — Henry Castor, The Year of the Spaniard, Doubleday (1950), page 137:
- What mental midget heaved them overboard, anyhow?"
- 1951 — "Washington Becomes A Cave Of Winds", Life, 15 October 1951:
- McCarthy, of course, had an answer. Benton, he said, was a "little mental midget…a megaphone for the Communist party-line type of smear."
- 1952 — Martin Bunn, "Gus and the Car That Wouldn't Turn Left", Popular Science, January 1952:
- "Sorry to have been so curt, Mr. Wilson," said Doc Evants, "but I'm afraid that uncouth mental midget unnerved me a bit.
- 1981 — "Check References — Or Else", Computerworld, 17 August 1981:
- Perhaps more important, that phone call may keep you from turning thumbs down on a job seeker who looks like a mental midget because of interview nerves.
- 1993 — William J. Palmer, The Films of the Eighties: A Social History, Southern Illinois University Press (1995), →ISBN, page 297:
- Given a chance to travel to Columbia, she hooks up with Jack Colton (Michael Douglas), a swashbuckling mental midget, and together they obliterate her memories of her nice safe yuppie existence.
- 1999 — Sherry Lewis, New Year, New Love, Harlequin (2011), →ISBN, page 67:
- And he'd do a good job, too, even if he was a mental midget who couldn't form more than one coherent though at a time.
- 2004 — Dan Peek, An American Band, Xulon Press (2004), →ISBN, page 75:
- This mental midget was constantly blowing things up around the dorm.
- 2008 — Jody Gehrman, Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty, Dial Books (2008), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- From what I've seen, a girl's got to behave like a mental midget before she'll get any action in this town.
- 2011 — Beverley Armstrong-Rodman, Nightmare in the Everglades, iUniverse (2011), →ISBN, pages 145-146:
- She was about to start yelling, and waving her arms, when it occurred to her that it could be the mental midget who was responsible for putting her here.
- 2012 — Jed La Lumiere, Patience: A Gay Man's Virtue, FriesenPress (2012), →ISBN, page 5:
- While we're close to the subject of nurture versus nature, for all of those people, who think that being gay is a choice…I love y'all…but no. So please save yourself from sounding silly and from the ridicule that comes with being labelled as a mental midget.