Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maybe I should not kick about the old fool's nasty moods and his awful preaching, for he has shown me most of the university, and though he did not take me to a movie, he took me to a very odd lecture. The man who was lecturing did not seem to make much sense, but the students scribbled in note books apparently taking down everything he said. I asked Uncle Harry why they wanted to take so many notes, and he said he did not know, especially the notes of this professor, who, he said, did nothing but wallow...
...much difference in technique between acting for the stage and for the screen. Lionel Barrymore and Holen Hayes are two outstanding examples of people who can do both with equal success. It does make a great difference, though, to have your audience before you. You get a great kick out of watching their response. I have noticed that on rainy nights it is often harder to make people laugh. No, Boston audiences are not very different from any others. Sometimes they are a little more intelligent, but you can't generalize about things like that...
...lightening his load" by retiring as president of Manhattan's Whist Club and "only spending several hours a day" as board chairman of Bethlehem Steel. "But I'm not through playing bridge nor have I quit the Bethlehem Steel Co." said he. "I will always get a kick out of cards, and as for the Bethlehem Company-that is my monument...
...portion of their waking hours proclaiming their own invincibility; nor would they allow the Japs to get away with the various raw deals which they have handed Russia in the Far East. Instead they would remain discreetly silent, sure that they could give the little yellow men a resounding kick on their posteriors that would speedily propel them back to their native islands...
...them into the ring, pulled down draperies, ripped out telephones. The riot lasted for a full half hour, ended only when Browning and Savoldi decided to defy the curfew and return to the mat. After another half hour, Savoldi flew feet first at Browning's chin (the "drop-kick"), missed, crashed on his back. Browning fell on him, won the match. Next day the Commission formally repealed its curfew order...