Word: gamin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first big-league appearance Judy turned out to be a knowing, unmanageable gamin ("Shirley, watch my language!") who thought Eddie Cantor was a puppet ("Oh, he talks!") and distrusted his fiscal attitude ("Get the cash, get the cash!"). Says Cantor: "We're going to go on as though Charlie McCarthy didn't exist...
...boys amused themselves by throwing stones into the learned assembly. Mr. Kittredge, who was presiding, asked me to take the chair, picked up a hat from the next seat, and chased the boys to Harvard Square. In a few minutes he returned, leading by each hand a cowering little gamin, whom he brought in to apologize to the Division! Unfortunately when he rushed out he had picked up a hat several sizes too small for him, and as he stood there with his prisoners it was perched very jauntily on his imposing head. The members of the Division enjoyed...