Word: kid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Background for Pain. Washington had not been trying to kid the consumer-although unquestionably few officials could resist a little sugar-coating on hard facts. The plain truth was that nobody had foreseen the awful truth...
...stage set was a homely scene: a shabby pine-board house, the decrepit tonneau of a model T. The hero was a cow hand; the heroine, a girl who dreamed of beauty parlors and city lights; the villain, her brother-a jazzing, hitchhiking kid home from the "Aggies." The music had no arias, but many a songful moment, underlined the action as plain people led simple lives, touched with bucolic dignity and rural nobility. Listed as a "music-play," A Tree on the Plains could well have been called folk opera...
Another, guarding blonde Miss Lane in a sky-high Rockefeller Center office, earnestly observes: "I hope we can get rid of her soon. I promised to take my kid sister to the Philharmonic...
...Comparing Coughlin's Social Justice with Hitler's abortive Beer Cellar Putsch, which took place in the days of the Weimar Republic, Grant said. "At that time, German Democracy showed that it was either weak or else that it had no confidence in itself, by handling the conspirators with kid gloves and letting them off with relatively easy sentences. Had the German government been stronger or had it had more confidence in itself. Hitler might well have not risen to power in later years...
...first act ended and the crowd applauded vigorously. I was amazed at the way Martinelli and the other singer took their curtain calls. They seemed as happy as kids. (I'll admit that when I was a "kid" and an eminent actor in my own small way I was usually not happy in a jovial sense when the curtain come down but rather happy in the sense of being-relieved. However, it is true that my curtain calls were rare, and besides, "happy as kids" makes a pleasant if inaccurate simile.) They danced around and grinned at each other...