Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kid from Spain (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn). If you like Eddie Cantor you will probably like this picture in which, surrounded by prettier girls than usual, he performs thoroughly typical Cantor antics. Tricked into acting as chauffeur for a crew of bandits, he has to escape across the border into Mexico while rolling his popeyes, giving exaggerated gulps. To delude a detective he is forced to pose as a torero. No one who knows Cantor technique needs to be told what he forgets to wear into the arena: his trousers. The funniest part of The Kid from Spain...
...Kid from Spain is longer than it should have been. Its principal incentives to hilarity are its hero's facial expressions of bewilderment, despair and false assurance. Sample joke...
Died. James (";Jimmy") De Forest, 68, trainer of boxers; of general complications; in Long Branch. N. J. An unnoted featherweight boxer, he trained Leach Cross, Frankie Burns, Joe Shevlin. Charlie White. Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), "Pal" Moore, Ted ("Kid") Lewis, Jack Dempsey, Luis Angel Firpo. Little Trainer De Forest was the model for all trainers: capable of savage scorn, furious calm and a disarming mildness in handling fighters. Describing a knockout blow, he once said. "It just makes you dumb and useless and sort of discouraged. You don't feel...
Giulia Morosini was the only woman allowed to drive three horses abreast in Central Park. They were hitched to a high blue dogcart. She wore a blue driving habit and their harness was of blue kid to match, trimmed with solid silver. One day a saddle horse bolted with her in the Park. She was rescued by Mounted Policeman Arthur M. Werner, whom she promptly married. In 1916 ex-Policeman Werner tried to make her raise his allowance from $75,000 to $100,000 a year. She kicked him out of the house, had the marriage annulled...
...last week. Even the several hundred thousand plain people inhabiting Long Island were aware that an unusual contest was being waged between curly-headed, soft-eyed Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny"') Whitney* and big. bluff Robert Low Bacon for the latter's seat in Congress. The opponents handled their campaigns with kid rather than loaded gloves, but each bestirred himself energetically. Democrat Whitney, his beauteous second wife, three station wagons, a touring car and a four-piece band proceeded up & down the island making naive, earnest little speeches at village corners. Mrs. Whitney's hunter took a ribbon at the Piping Rock...