Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot deals both with gangsters and with prizefighters; consequently, it is pretty dull. Myrna Loy is the mistress of Otto Kruger, as the big-time crook and gambler, Willie Ryan. She meets Max Baer, whom she loves because "he is a big kid." In altruistic fashion, Ryan gives her up; naturally, she has her troubles with her boxer, since he is very healthy and cannot be satisfied with one woman. Nevertheless, the picture ends happily in a terrific match between Baer and Carnera, and in established love between the central couple...
...aroused curiosity. After "funk" had been discussed, undergraduates began to realize that some supposedly tow-head bunch had an attitude about listlessness at Dartmouth. "Listlessness" is the favorite campus editorial word all over America these days. It is supposed to mean that the campuses have long ago left kid-shouting behind and have found no substitute...
...Steeplejack" is attempting to be practical about the whole of undergraduate life. Last spring the senior governing body, Palaeopitus, expressed the prevailing dislike of a phlegmatic campus by reviving Freshman Rules and similar kid stuff, which had formerly been tossed aside with raccoon coats in the days when "College Humor" was starting to slip. Revival was all right, but a lot of Seniors who knew the score, distrusted Palaeopitus's typical means of reviving. Hence "Steeplejack", a spearhead of no deceptive, mature revival of interest. The campus is sick of some of the labels applied in order to clarify...
...through the ropes of the scaffold and compare the Loughran and the Sharkey of that moment with, the boys as we knew them when Loughran used to be called the pretty one, He started fighting at the age of 15, which was 16 years ago, an uncommonly handsome, upstanding kid with the poise of a statue and nice teeth and hard, flat belly with the muscles laid over one another like the sections of an armadillo's shell...
...have always loved the stage, particularly comedy and musical comedy. When I was a kid, I used to steal money to go to the theater. Of course Thalia has made remarkable progress since I was a boy. The comedy of the caricature and the burlesque was in vogue then. Now the public demands human beings in human situations...