Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...procedure not uncommon in U. S. newspaper offices is what is known as "kidding the pants off a story." Last week the Press of Chicago, as if sensitive about its reputation for glorifying crime, elected to "kid the pants off" a murder trial...
...Quentin (Calif.) penitentiary, where he had been seven years for killing a woman in a drunken brawl, walked paunchy Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), 59, oldtime middleweight prizefighter noted for his craftiness and cruelty in the ring. By plane from San Francisco he flew to Dearborn, Mich, where awaited him a job in Ford Motor Co.. arranged by Harry Bennett, chief of Ford company police, whom he had taught boxing in the Navy. His job was described as "physical instructor." Felix, Count von Luckner, famed "Sea Devil," mariner since he was 13, Wartime scourge of Allied shipping, went yachting...
Hardly less gory and sincere were Sammy Fuller and Jack ("Kid") Berg in New York, the former outpointing the latter in twelve rounds. Fuller's victory was supposed to entitle him to meet the champion, Tony Canzoneri, between whom and Petrolle there is little to choose...
...Newspapering is a young man's game. . . And a newspaperman is young only as long as he can successfully kid himself. I kidded myself because I kept on thinking smugly that I was Somebody. ... A newspaperman's training-his 'deadline' habit of thinking on his feet-will get him further in a money way in advertising. . . . I'm out for the jack from...
Last week Sheik Monte Bourjaily announced that Cartoonist Dirks would no longer draw "The Captain & the Kids," acquired when U. F. S. bought the late World's syndicate contracts. Instead, beginning May 1, a young understudy, Bernard Dibble, creator of "Danny" in the Graphic, would carry on. Rudolph Dirks's "Captain & the Kid's" which began as "The Katzenjammer Kids" (katzenjammer, literally "cat's cry," means "hangover" in contemporary German slang) is the oldest color page with a continuous existence in newspaper history. The World had the first of all U. S. colored comic strips...