Word: kid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loud-mouthed Communist-line Congressman Vito Marcantonio took the witness stand. He was offered by the defense as an "expert," but he did none of his usual screaming; he was bothered by a cold. No such ailment handicapped pint-sized Lawyer Harry Sacher, who looks like a Dead End Kid. In a bullfrog's voice he insinuated at one point that Judge Medina was prejudicing the trial. Medina said icily: "You and your colleagues have obviously adopted new techniques by which, instead of the defendants being tried, the court and all its members are the ones who must suffer...
...leave of his host, Sinclair Lewis, to visit a patient: "I have a feeling that Johnny Gunther will die this weekend." Johnny did die, of a brain tumor that more than a dozen doctors had fought unsuccessfully for 15 months. Johnny was only 17, a tall, good-looking, skinny kid who had graduated from Deerfield Academy and planned to enter Harvard that fall...
...Dizzy D. Jaunty Tommy Murphy, as much as anyone, was a typical man from old Battery D. Tommy, a sergeant in the outfit, was from Kansas City's East Side. As a kid he had gone into the fight game and become king of the amateur lightweights. He was out in Seattle in 1917, when the boys back home wrote him that they were trying to form an all-Catholic battery in the 129th Field Artillery. Tommy hurried home to join. That was the beginning of the wild outfit which earned the early nickname of the "Dizzy...
Bobby Driscoll is a rarity among child actors: when relaxed, he is an attractive kid, and when called upon to act, he is not at all repellent. His battle to save his black sheep from the meat block and get it to the county fair might have become moderately tiresome, except for timely interruptions for ballad and cartoon sequences. Beulah Bondi, a Bible-quoting grandmother, and the late Harry Carey, as a kindly farmer, fit almost perfectly into the Hollywood concept of uppercrust hillbillydom...
...spindly, freckle-faced kid with a wide grin, Hubert Jr. was his high school's prize debater, came out second in the state's regional tournament. That was in 1929 and Hubert...