Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been a constant reader of the New York World for some 30 years and have no recollection of its editions ever having been printed on yellow paper. The origin of the opprobious "yellow journalism" came about through a "comic" drawn by R. F. Outcault, called "The Yellow Kid." This appeared first in the World; scored such a hit that Hearst bought Outcault away from Pulitzer. It depicted a street gamin who wore a yellow night shirt, on which was inscribed all the gutter chatter and slang of that day, and it was out of that incident that the term...
...English newsman inquired if the British publi; were to enjoy the famed, picturesque Dawesian vocabulary. "Hell's bells, no!" said the discreetly indiscreet Ambassador. "I'm a diplomat now. I've got to don kid glove manners...
...declared the winner by a close decision, was Eligio Sardinias, a young Cuban-born Negro with big round eyes, long arms, an antlike waist and the inadequate nickname of Kid Chocolate. Kid Licorice would suit him better. When he entered the U. S. a few months ago, he had no fame, although in Havana he had won 100 amateur bouts and knocked out 46 of his spidery opponents. In Manhattan his first professional rewards were coffee and frijoles given to him by informal fighting clubs in out of the way places. Now he has more silk shirts than...
...royal palace at Kabul, Padishah Habibullah, as the muscular Bacha Sakao now calls himself, opened no boxes, neither tugged nor grunted. He, debonair, wears tight kid gloves to show his gentility, brandishes two loaded rifles to show his dexterity, wears plentiful ammunition against emergencies, rules most of Afghanistan...
...with liquor and women. The trainer who picks him temporarily out of the gutter, and turns him into champion boxer, he ousts unrepaid. The girl he is forced to marry he deserts penniless. But in New York he is publicized the way the public likes its champions: "Just a kid; that's all he is; a regular boy. . . . Don't know the meanin' o' bad habits. Never tasted liquor in his life and would prob'bly get sick if he smelled it. Clean livin' put him up where...