Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Racket: Some particular kinds of fraud and robbery are so termed, when called by their flask titles, and others, Rig; as, the Letter-racket; the Order-racket, the Kid rig, the Cat and Kitten rig; etc., but all these terms depend on the fancy of the speaker. In fact, any game may be termed a rig, racket, suit, slum, etc. by prefixing thereto the particular branch of depredation or fraud in question...
Incidently, this "Kid rig" was a confidence game. Children carrying parcels were accosted by petty thieves acting as messengers, who told the child that they were to relieve him of the burden while he returned to his employer for more urgent business. From this we get the expression "to kid out of." When we kid a person out of some possession, we work the "Kid...
After an apprenticeship as a stage baby, Jackie Coogan, 4, was doing the shimmy in a vaudeville act with Annette Kellerman when Charles Chaplin, then meditating The Kid, put him on contract. After he had made 14 pictures Jackie's parents sent him to Loyola High School in Los Angeles. Now 16, he is in the junior class, weighs 95 lb., likes to wear white spats away from school. His allowance, until recently, was $20 per week when he was earning about $3,500 per week...
With a rubber bandage around one knee, flat-nosed, beetle-browed Battling Battalino of Hartford, Conn., featherweight champion of the world, advanced crouching in Madison Square Garden toward Kid Chocolate (Eligio Sardinias), flashy Cuban Negro. With an eye for an evening's entertainment and the support of the Italian vote at the next election. Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut was at the ringside rooting for Battalino and so was Mayor Walter Batterson of Hartford. Wild and scared in the first round, feeling the hostility of the crowd which had called him "cheese champion" because he kept his title safe...