Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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AUBREY BEARDSLEY-Haldane MacFall -Simon & Schuster ($6). Some 30 years ago a lanky fop, carrying a pair of lemon-kid gloves, his hair falling about his ears like a hermit's, attended an ironic ceremony in a London church. The occasion was the unveiling of a bust of John Keats; after it was over, Aubrey Beardsley ". . . broke away from the throng, and, hurrying across the graveyard, stumbled and lurched awkwardly over the green mounds of the sleeping dead." It was an ironic ceremony because Artist Beardsley, as Poet Keats had done, was to go southward and die of consumption...
...Into the stodgiest period of English history minced "Dizzy," "in a coat of black velvet, poppy-colored trousers broidered with gold, a scarlet waistcoat, sparkling rings worn on top of white kid gloves." In decent black, Gladstone strode opposite?half-concealing his metaphysical doubts behind a truly British sense of duty. "At Oxford the young men drank less in 1840 because Gladstone had been...
...never seen a man work so hard before. Get me? Once a show starts he never leaves it from the first rehearsal until it's several, weeks under way--that's where his success lies. He is always prowling around, fixing up things here and there well so long kid were off to the big city...
...Those seances should be taken as a game and the audiences should play along with me. If they're so stupid as to take me seriously they're fools. Both of us should kid the inspector. The man who cat-calls me in the dark is a coward, why doesn't he do it when the lights...
...scared of Harvard boys trying to kid me in the dark during my seances," were the words of Chatrand the Great, the master magician who is starring in "The Spider," the mystery plays at the Majestic Theatre, this week. Chatrand, otherwise known as John Halliday, was carefully combing his hair and putting on his make-up in his dressing room before the performance...