Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tony Canzoneri: a 15-round fight, defending his world's lightweight championship, against Judah Bergman (Jack ["Kid"] Berg) ; in Manhattan...
Word came that Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), eccentric fisticuffer who was imprisoned six years ago for killing a woman, would be paroled from San Quentin (Calif.) penitentiary in December 1932. Ford Motor Co. of Detroit agreed to be responsible for him for the next six years, will give...
...protection and salvation that the wearer may seem terrible to the opponents of truth," the two small gold & silver casks of wine and golden loaves of bread which are the offerings of the faithful to its priesthood, Dr. Thomas Kiley Gorman last week donned a pair of white kid gloves (as did Jacob who covered his hands with skins of kid), was blessed and became the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Reno, Nevada...
...like a metropolitan gem set in a mountain wasteland. The finest mechanical equipment was bought. In the early days of the Mergenthaler linotype machine, the Anaconda Standard at one time had more of them in operation than had any Manhattan daily. When Richard F. Outcault's "Yellow Kid" ushered colored comics into the Manhattan field, Publisher Daly had to have some, sent for Thorndyke, Trowbridge, Loomis, then three of the highest-priced newspaper artists in the country. Color decks and photo-engraving equipment were rushed to Anaconda and the Standard produced its own four-page colored comic supplement...
President Hoover, on whom the book opens fire first, is portrayed as a weak and groping figure, lonely and desperate, fretful and feeble. Excerpts: "It explains a great deal about Herbert Hoover to learn that he was not a 'swimming hole kid.' . , . He is paying the price of drudgery and discipline. So is the American people. . . . He is our first hair shirt hero. . . . Mr. Hoover detests and dreads the mob. . . . His is a detailed, though somewhat disorderly mind. He gives off light, not heat. He is as dynamic as a 30-watt bulb. . . . He can work with underlings...