Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew what to do. If the news got around to the Mayfield Club or Pepper Pike Club that I had lost my step-ins, think what would happen to my social standing. . . . But the best philosophy I ever heard can be expressed in three words - 'don't kid yourself.' That realization helped me to cure my Depression." Because clergymen objected, a playlet called "Does Crime Pay?", starring plump Mrs. Alice Schiffer Diamond, widow of Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond, was dropped from the bill of Billy Watson's burlesque show when it reached Paterson, N. J. Protested...
Every citizen of the U. S. is responsible for this crime. We all knew what conditions were, but were too lazy and indifferent to do anything to remedy them. Now most of us are ashamed and feel as a delivery boy expressed it: "As soon as the kid is back safe we gotta do somethin'." But as far as I have heard, no one but Mr. Wagner has had the impudence to suggest the Lindberghs sacrifice their child...
Mail addressed in the past few months "To the Gamest Kid in America" has found its way directly to Clarence Hastings, City Hospital, Syracuse, N. Y. He was 14 and a hero, having lived in a Drinker respirator one day longer than anyone else. His runner-up was Birdsall Sweet, also 14, of Beacon, N. Y. The infantile paralysis epidemic of last summer and autumn (TIME, Feb. 15, et ante) had put them in respirators, big sheet steel cans which made a bellows of their listless lungs, pumped air into them (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930; Sept. 21). Stories of Clarence...
...Jesse Thornton's champion Million Dollar Kid Boots, a trim, beady-eyed Boston terrier, best of the non-sporting group...
High Pressure (Warner). Since the departure of gang pictures, the cinema has developed half a dozen minor trends to take their place. One, already on the wane, was for "kid pictures." like Skippy, Sooky, Huckleberry Finn. Another was for "one location" stories, like Transatlantic, Union Depot, the forthcoming Hotel Continental and Grand Hotel. A third, closest to the technique of gang pictures, was a series of surveys of exciting occupations, such as taxi-driving, gambling, swindling and reporting...