Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eligio Sardinias y Montalvo ("Kid Chocolate"), generally acknowledged featherweight champion of the world, is a wiry, knob-fisted Cuban Negro whose quick, malicious dexterity makes him one of the most exciting fighters in the world to watch. His opponent in Manhattan last week was a serious little Englishman, Seaman Tom Watson, who acquired a strange flat-footed technique by learning to box on the heaving deck of a battleship. The best featherweight in Europe, he began to commute to the U. S. for fights last autumn, returning after each one to tend the Newcastle bar which he bought...
...every generation of fighters there is likely to be at least one colored fisticuffer who enjoys the prestige which, in Kid Chocolate's case, is best indicated by the fact that fight critics last week felt - even though he had roundly whipped the best available challenger - that Chocolate had failed to do himself justice. Now 22, Chocolate arrived in the U. S. four years ago. won 167 fights before he lost his first one, to Lightweight Jack Berg two years ago. Before that he had been a newsboy in Havana, learned to box by studying cinemas of Panama...
...sophisticated residents of Danbury, Conn. might be surprised to hear that a Danbury woman said: "They started to have one for us, but my husband went out and sent them off to the saloon." In Newport, N. H.: "I went to one or two when I was a kid. Now they rice 'em up and confetti 'em up." In Hartland, Conn.: " 'Member when we serenaded. Drinked up three gallon...
...swine). Fish must have both fins and scales (no sharks, no catfish, no shellfish). Birds must not prey. No creature that "goeth upon the belly" is kosher. Nor is one that dies a natural death (disease might have caused death). Because the Torah reads, "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk," kashruth separates meat and milk dishes. Anything cooked with animal fats is "meaty"; anything in butter or milk is "milky." Milky and meaty may not be served at the same meal. The housewife must keep two complete sets of dishes and utensils. Salting (melihah...
...favorite dodge for getting free drinks was to produce what looked like a stick of dynamite in a crowded saloon, shout: "Closing time! The pub is going up!" and light the fuse. When the novelty of this trick wore off he substituted a rocket for the nonexplosive "dynamite." Finlander Kid was 103, with hair "over four yards long"; his sledges were pulled by four brown bears to whom he told all his troubles...