Word: brat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voiced kid with a comic-strip face, who until this week had never appeared in a picture without mugging or overacting it. His name (assumed) was Mickey Rooney, and to a large part of the more articulate U. S. cinemaudience, his name was becoming a frequently used synonym for brat...
Nevertheless, Mickey Rooney was no brat to some 24,000 movie exhibitors who (in the annual Fame-Motion Picture Herald poll) voted him the man whose pictures kept their houses best filled...
John Llewellyn Lewis was in his 60th year, his 21st as president of the mine workers, his fifth at the helm of C. I. O. He was an emigrant Welsh miner's brat in Iowa when, this day 50 years ago, 198 men from the coal fields met in Columbus to weld their various feuding unions into one United Mine Workers of America. Behind him and his 2,400 jubilee delegates were men long dead: John Bates, who founded the first U. S. miners' union in 1849, and failed; the thousands of British diggers who flocked over...
...opened backstage in a gaslit provincial vaudeville theatre, with performers peeping at a newborn babe lying in a trunk. "Whose brat is that?" a woman asks, is answered "That's Jerry and Helen Cohan's boy." Suddenly, out of the trunk rises a tiny hand waving a tiny flag...