Word: kid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: . . . Why kid ourselves further? . . . This is our fight as much as it is that of England and France. Sooner or later we must go to their aid with ships, men and materiel-why not immediately...
...tank guns (which can pierce 2-inch armor at 1,500 yards) and smokepots (devised to blind tank crews in grey, saccharine fog). Some of the tanks had names. Defense forces using smokepots and modernized French 75-mm. field guns captured Gypsy Rose Lee, Diamond Lil, Galloping Ghost, Suicide Kid in one skirmish. Along with a completely mechanized cavalry brigade, there was still horse cavalry. But even the horses were modernized. There were trucks to haul them on long marches; some carried portable radio transmitters which the riders operated on horseback in the field...
...became a famous columnist, a noted author, or even an Editor. But mostly he grew old at 45. And when he saw a new youngster in the City Room he figured the best thing he could do was to take him accoss the street and say to him: "Kid, what the hell are you doing around here? Get out of it. It's a lousy business...
Forty Little Mothers, the Cantor offering, was once Le Mioche (The Kid), a charming French film comedy, though the producers of Le Mioche might not recognize their baby. For once Comedian Cantor is unusually restrained. As a worried bachelor professor who furtively fathers an abandoned boy baby in a girls' seminary, Cantor limits his histrionics to planting wet smacks on the patient infant, singing one lachrymose ditty, Little Curly Hair. Once tears trickle down his nose. But smart Showman Cantor lets cute Baby Quintanilla, and scads of leggy little schoolgirls, among whom are Bonita Granville and Diane Lewis...
...American resentment against the Shylock of the North. Extremists in the South are hardboiled governments (Mexico's, Bolivia's) which assume that the U. S. has the jitters. Eager to capitalize on Washington's fear that the Fascist axis will undermine the Monroe Doctrine, they would kid the U. S. into canceling the bonds, highjack new credits in the name of hemisphere security...