Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cartoonist Kirby's "You Done Good, Kid" appeared after Nominee Smith had answered the attack on his legislative record made by Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette. Editor White retracted the more disgraceful part of his charges. The G. O. P. at no time took official credit or responsibility for the White work. Many another cartoon was drawn about this episode. In his retraction, issued just before sailing to Europe, Editor White said : "I'm throwing no mud at. Governor Smith." A picture at once suggested itself and was drawn ? a little man on the stern...
William Randolph Hearst of the Journal lured Outcault and his Yellow Kid away from the World along with most of the World's Sunday staff. The World countered with another Yellow Kid series. Serious-minded people pointed to the Yellow Kids as horrible examples, cried out against the "yellow journalism" of both Hearst and Pulitzer.* But Outcault was enjoying himself and his Yellow Kid was shouting: "I wish dat dese lovely wimmin wud leave me alone." He was supposed to have founded these comics on a group of street imps who were burlesquing the Duke of Marlborough...
Gangsters and gunmen have names that describe their talents. The Rough Riders of Jack the Dropper, were led by Kid Dropper, so called because in the early days of his career, he often pounced on children pitching pennies, beat them to earth and seized their coins...
...Michigan Kid, Wheel of Chance, A Certain Young Man, The Play Girl, Burning Daylight are neither curious nor good...
...Great Intellectual, the boy that Kid Shakespeare knocked for a row of midnight oilcans, will exchange bopps on the beak with the New Zealand Menace, the Plumber's Son, the Horseshoe Carpenter. They will attempt to put the snooze on each other, while the Grand Vizier of the Golden Gate takes in slightly more or slightly less than one million smackers...