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Word: kidding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year's Maroons) ; the lucky Chicago Blackhawks, who finished sixth in the eight-team league last year (converted into championship calibre by the purchase of a complete ready-made forward line from the Maroons) ; and the up-&-coming New York Rangers (whose farm-bred kid team beat the reputable Americans six times in a row during pre-season exhibition games last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...recent years, having wrenched the J. from his name, Atkinson-though thoughtful as ever about good plays-has become a Katzenjammer Kid about bad ones. This season he has pulled leg after leg of flop after flop. Of Case History he wrote: "The stepmother goes off her chump." Of Come Across: "You see him in bed, which is no treat." Of The Devil Takes a Bride: "This is a sordid tale, my mates." Of the author of The Good: "An old Hudson (N. Y.) boy, Mr. Erskin . . . should hesitate about visiting back home." Of Thanks for Tomorrow: "Thanks for tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Minus the J. | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Last week in Salt Lake City's death house Gunman Deering explained that he chose a firing squad because "when I was a kid raising hell everyone told me I'd end up on the gallows, so I thought I'd fool them. Also, there's an old saying I like: 'Live by the sword and die by the sword...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: By the Sword | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Fascism offers the security and irresponsibility of mass action to a people whose traditional allegiance has been shattered, and replaced by disillusionment, Pettee said. "It could be slipped over on us like a lollypop to a hungry kid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fascism Coming To United States, Is Pettee Forecast | 10/26/1938 | See Source »

...story contains many a hero, but its main hero is Bob Boulton, a lazy, circus-struck, upState New York kid who teaches his collie, Skipper, a repertory of backyard tricks, rises from a frowsy dog-&-pony show to headline billing in Madison Square Garden in The Greatest Show on Earth. With him goes pretty Ann, a blonde snake charmer whom he won when she was abandoned by an athletic, womanizing clown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three-Ring Tale | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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