Word: kid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mark Twain has given U. S. citizens some idea of the wild rages, desperate plans, fearsome revenges that seethe behind the impassive, Indianlike features of 14-year-old boys. Last week New Jersey citizens were reminded again. First William and Emmett broke into a garage. An eight-year-old kid who had tagged along with them was spotted by a cop, who fired in the air and captured the kid; William and Emmett ducked through the back streets, until they came to a parked car with the keys in it. They stole it. They had never driven, but William...
...hopeful of an extended engagement at the Majestic Theatre. Besides Gala Performance, it had some other new ballets: Three Virgins and a Devil (by Agnes de Mille), a Daliesque-Italian-primitive trifle in which a monkey-like Satan deftly garners three damsels; an enlarged version of Billy the Kid (by Eugene Loring, with music by Aaron Copland), a rich, loamy piece of Americana; Pas de Quatre (Anton Dolin), reconstructing the performance which the four greatest 19th Century ballerinas gave before Queen Victoria...
...first the crime game was the sort of thing that a young kid like I just lived," he explained "but after a while the unceasing round of slayings that was typical of Chicago at the time sickened and disillusioned me. I determined to start anew...
...Army. The clerical job of looking into each man's possibilities would be a terrific undertaking, and the Army not only cannot do it but is not doing it. The Departments with relevant offerings are doing their utmost to train those who are willing to learn. But men who kid themselves into letting higher powers do their thinking for them are likely to end up scraping their cheeks and shoulders on the inside of a tank for $21 per month...
...tough West Side. When he was in the fourth grade, he hit his teacher "on the francis" with an eraser because she laughed at the way he spelled Philadelphia. When the truant officers found him, ten days later, he was sent to reform school. There he met an Irish kid named Frankie Madden, leader of the Itch Mob. Madden wised him up to the prize ring, persuaded him to become a fighter, let him pose as his kid brother. In 1917, after 131 fights. Battling Joe Madden quit the ring...