Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of my life in St. Louis, I guess I'm just a natural dancer, for I've had rhythm ever since I can remember, and I've never taken a lesson in my life. We lived next door to a theatre manager, and he put me in a "Kid act" at the tender ago of 11. Gus Edwards saw me there, signed me up, and I've been on the stage ever since. I was in the last "Follies" that Mr. Ziegfeld produced, "Calling All Stars", "At Home Abroad" when Eleanor Powell was forced to leave, and now this...
Born in New York, Bert Lahr also, started his career in a "kid act", at the age of 16. He graduated to burlesque and vaudeville, and now rates tops in the art of making people laugh. He has acted in several movies, his last feature completed about five years ago. He likes Hollywood, but has no special interest there. His ambition, now, is to retire soon, and watch things whizz by from the sidelines...
...corporations, restless little Sidney Weinberg started in Goldman Sachs as a porter in 1907 after a short Manhattan career as a newsboy and Western Union messenger. It was years before the partners even knew him by name. By his own account he got ahead by being "such a fresh kid." During the War he was cook on a submarine chaser, until yanked into the Navy's Intelligence Department. Brilliant, blunt, energetic, he takes vast interest in the affairs of any company in which he is a director. Occasionally at board meetings he pulls out an essay on the duties...
...Upton Sinclair is likely to provide one of its most picturesque footnotes. He is as much a literary oddity and popular favorite as General Lew Wallace, who wrote Ben Hur while Governor of New Mexico, and who was distracted from his romance by the lawless exploits of Billy the Kid. Belonging to that class of writers who, unable to choose between the world of affairs and the literary life, have attempted both and succeeded in neither, Sinclair is known in political circles as a novelist, in literary circles as a politician, whose promise or threat is always greater than...
Since the publication of Walter Burns's The Saga of Billy the Kid in 1926, romanticized accounts of the lives of Western desperadoes have become as commonplace in the U. S. literary scene as gangster films in the cinema. Last week the appearance of a routine volume dealing with a minor Texas badman not only revealed how thoroughly this particular field of Americana had been combed but suggested that a work of definite historical value might be produced if Western biographers would turn their eyes away from the gunsmoke of legend that surrounds their heroes and concentrate...