Word: kid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kid Scat to the Catskills. He was born David Daniel Kaminski, son of a Russian-born garment worker named Jacob Kaminski, on Brooklyn's Bradford Street. He soon learned that the only laughter in tenements is self-created, joined "social clubs" which put on amateur theatricals. Then he and a friend named Louis Eisen formed a harmony team...
...beautiful example of how to kid the censors was given by the New York Time's erudite Brooks Atkinson, who tucked his tongue in his cheek, pecked out a deadpan cable from Moscow...
Personality Kid. Such was the man who appeared last week before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, holding hearings on his appointment by Harry Truman as a director in the powerful Reconstruction Finance Corp...
...Eden's principles and dropped nothing but his aspirates." (Commoner Bevin still occasionally drops his aitches; during the war he whipped on his workers with "Give 'itler 'ell!") Different as Ernie Bevin is in manner and method from urbane Anthony Eden, and from all the kid-glove and silk-hat diplomats before him, he has not veered from Eden's course. He growled to a friend not long ago: "Everyone is expecting me to change our foreign policy. What these people forget is that facts never change...
...sepulchral silence. "A thousand thoughts went through my mind," she says. "Did my miserable appearance make them feel ashamed?" Then the hall broke into a long thunder of applause. Maurice Chevalier rose to his feet and cried: "Elle en a plein le ventre, la môme" ("The kid's got plenty of stuff...