Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Avery Memorial wing of the Wadsworth Athenaeum and sponsored by "The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music." This New England organization is headed by A. Everett ("Chick") Austin Jr., a rich young Hartforder who directs the Hartford Museum and knew Virgil Thomson at Harvard when that young composer wore kid gloves to scull on the Charles...
...indicated by the pronunciation, the correct spelling of this crime is kidnapping, (to nab a kid) and not "kidnaping" (perhaps to grab a child by the nape of the neck). We feel very incensed about this, and live in mortal fear of the day when the newspapers, not content to leave the extra "me" in program or pogrom, knock superfluous words from the names of the great. Picture to yourself such a headline, "Presidents Rosevelt, Hover, Lowel, Angel, and Con'nt confer with orators Ramsey M'Donald, Graham M'Namee...
...been broke. His third wife and daughter Anna, 10, have long been cared for by Mrs. J. P. Cudahy of the packing family. Now and then he picked up a little money as a racetrack tipster, a baseball umpire, a film extra. Once he and his good friend "Kid McCoy," oldtime prizefighter and ex-convict, were in such straits that McCoy wheedled climes from a street crowd to view "the strangest dwarf in the world." When he showed them Sloan, McCoy explained: "I bet you never saw such a big dwarf in your life...
Although no title was at stake, Eiigio Sardinias y Montalvo ("Kid Chocolate'') took his fight with Tony Canzoneri last week so seriously that he actually trained properly instead of indulging in what his manager calls "bad things." He was anxious to graduate from the featherweight class, of which he is champion, because he has trouble keeping his weight down, because there is not enough money in it. To get a match with the lightweight champion, Chicago's shifty Barney Ross he had first to whip savage little Canzoneri, the onetime champion whom Ross deposed last June...
...minute later Canzoneri doubled him over with a jab to the midriff, smashed a pile-driver right to his polished black jaw. Chocolate flopped flat on his face, his legs twitching. Gamely he dragged himself to one knee, tumbled back at the count of "ten." Revived in his corner. Kid Chocolate hung on the rones and sobbed miserably over his first knockout in 211 fights...