Word: brat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serial characters of our time have excited such mixed emotions as Fanny Brice's Baby Snooks. Regarded by some as a loathly brat, by others as a most comical moppet, Snooks has been a mainstay of the Maxwell House Good News show since December 1937, currently attracts, with the help of Frank Morgan, the latest thing in Munchausens, an audience estimated at about...
...Twig, the Pot (also Jerry). A chambermaid is a skivvy, a woman, a hag. Tea, coffee or cocoa is hogwash or pigswill. A boy who studies hard, swots, is treated with the contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group of epithets schoolboys apply to townies, the lowest form of animal life, or schoolmates they dislike. Samples: swine, tick, cad, oik, lout, drip, squirt, scug, goof. Townies often retaliate: e.g., their name for schoolboys of Durham University is varsity tits...
Mickey Rooney was no brat either to thousands of movie-goers who had already mightily plumped for him in the solid form of dimes and quarters at those theatres...
...Mickey Rooney seem a brat to his studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, for whom in 1939, he grossed a box-office total of $30,000,000. They saw Mickey Rooney in bread & butter terms, and as such he was the biggest actor of the year in pictures...
Young Tom Edison. Mickey walks through his Hardy pictures, sometimes arrives for rehearsal with only the faintest notion of his lines. But he gives his big pictures everything he has. And he has been getting bigger and better pictures - Stablemates (with Wallace Beery, who calls Mickey "a brat" but "a fine actor") ; Boys Town (with Spencer Tracy, who does not call Mickey anything) ; Babes in Arms (the musical with Judy Garland...