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Word: kick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Guelph | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...later admitted the kidnapping and shooting. Freed under bond, he pleaded self-defense. Said he: "I don't see what else I could have done." Mary Butterfield, who had not tried to resist, said the kidnappers promised to return her before the ball ended. "I got a big kick out of it," said she. After the shooting: "I think it's awful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: St. Patrick's Queen | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Well, many distinguished graduates have recorded their dissatisfaction with the education offered them by Yale: C. A. Bristed, Andrew D. White, W. W. Phelps, Poultney Bigelow, Owen Johnson. But still the old mother hustles along, dragging her rebellious children at her skirts. They kick her shins and bawl and pound her with their fists, but still she hustles along. See her broad back, her mighty arms and legs, and ample breasts that suckled those ungrateful brats. Her dress is torn, her hair is mussed, and sweat stands on her cheeks, "wrinkled deep in time". But there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mother Yale Hustles Along | 3/4/1932 | See Source »

Having won from a friend a couple of small wagers on federal statistics (TIME) he evidently now recognizes their accuracy, attested by enclosed from him. I thought you might get a kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1932 | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...didn't get to was Al Smith and Huey Long. . . . The President was in fine humor and he told the jokes. Said Pennsylvania, the second richest State, was the only one that had passed the tin cup for relief from the Federal Government. He laughed and got a kick out of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

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