Word: kid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that expansion will be necessary in the long run, once the State returns to normalcy, need only be shown the number turned away from M.S.C. in the last ten years. Besides, there will be no return to the prewar educational flow in and out of colleges. Soon the veterans' kid brothers will be wanting to go to college, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at the present time prepared to do away with its emergency measures, must meet its future responsibilities by expanding its retarded facilities for State education...
...cover a cock pheasant and came to point. Stan walked in for the flush with his gun in position. I gave the signal and out came the bird. With a leap and a bound, Red made a perfect catch in the air. Everyone was surprised and began to kid Stan, saying that he would have missed anyway, so we gave Red credit for the save. Not thinking Red would repeat the performance, Stan was told he had but one more chance and he'd better make it good or the dog would...
...Deep South execution chamber, after talking with four boys (one 16, two 17, one 19) who are soon to die there, the sheriff speaks with the tickled-pink fascination of a kid with a new erector set: "This is where we're going to execute them. . . . Over here is where the chair will be. We used to hang them. The noose came down here and the ropes were tied to the bars on this window here. Then we cut this trap in the floor here, and we dropped them below and they carried the bodies away. That made...
...awaited details of the royal trousseaux. Hats were "off the face," for royalty may not hide from onlookers under a lowering brim. For Princess Elizabeth there were pastel evening gowns, "really romantic, with rustling, or softly flowing full skirts." For 16-year-old Margaret ("She's a nice kid," said one of the designers, "with a naughty glint in her eye"), at least one "slinky, grown-up looking, sophisticated" chiffon. "Her Majesty," wrote one reporter, "is expected to land in a misty blue, bordered with matching ostrich feathers...
...production assistant to Paramount's Henry Ginsberg, and columnist for King Features. Together, they would pay her about $100,000 a year. When she had 'made up her mind, The Face, 32, telephoned the home folks in New York. Said she: "Hey, shake hands with the richest kid in town...