Word: kid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Googan's Avenue, and peopled with alley cats, stray hounds and slum bums in high-society clothes. Strutting in its center was a child in a bright yellow nightgown, whose slightly oriental face was sharp with precocious malice. The nasty creature was named The Yellow Kid, and his guttersnipe antics were soon on every New Yorker's tongue. It was the first successful comic strip...
...slums will be cleared, a new civic center will rise and the whole city will be spanned by super-express highways already designed by New York's equally energetic Park Commissioner Robert Moses. His opponents call Chep "Little Caesar," "Big Head" and "The Kid Mayor," but they have learned to respect his punch and zing...
...daughter of a St. Louis jeweler, Kay started playing the piano when she was four, appeared with the St. Louis Symphony at 15. Says she: "I was a stage-struck kid, and I got out of St. Louis fast." She went to California at 17 to teach diving, but made a bigger splash on the air, with the Mills Brothers, and later with Fred Waring. She had a radio program of her own, the Kay Thompson Festival, before ending...
...last year at college, Robert Richard Chappuis, 24, carries his football reputation lightly. Unlike hail-fellow Tom Harmon, he is incapable of calling everybody on campus by his first name. His snaggleteeth and sharp features earned him the nickname "Bird Face" when he was a kid. An easy way to make him blush (as his teammates do when things get dull) is to ask him for his autograph...
...teams now held to a thirty-five game schedule with only a short practice period. A conditioning program that included compulsory exercise and a rule forbidding late season entry would provide better injury protection. The present condition of House football shocked a hardened Varsity coach into revealing that "No kid of mine would ever play in that massacre...