Word: brat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Skeleton plot: a college youth, on the eve of marriage, is informed that one of his old extra-campus acquaintances has given birth to a child of which he is the father. He therefore proposes marriage to the brat's mother who impudently refuses, preferring to study art in Paris. The youth discovers his child in a foundling hospital and steals it; he is pursued by the daughter of a boardinghouse keeper and also by his fiancee. Too soon, it seemed to the audience, weary of their company, Norman Overbeck made amends with his original flame and they were...
...prognosticating the presidential election. Send a stamped, addressed envelope, by the way, and I'll give you the inside dope on any state. Wall Street friends have asked me to make no public announcement for fear of the effect it would have on the market. Joe, Junior, saucy little brat, asks me to make it clear I mean the stock market and not the second hand fruity market...
...manipulated. Ninon's long friendship with M. de Saint-Evremond is made real and splendid, as is that curious moment when the old lady stretched a wrinkled hand to touch, like a godmother who bestows an inheritance of her magic, the small sticky paw of Voltaire, then a monkeyish brat. Ironical, Romantic...
...Brat & Kiddy...
...Brat," as a name for a child, is openly and admittedly insulting in the present day. Webster terms it "now usually contemptuous...