Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outfit have a putup touch (opportunity for theft suggested by an outsider) for 10%, no other outfit would think of offering the putup man 15% for it. . . . Lying is perhaps considered by thieves to be more unethical than it is by the law-abiding. . . ." A member of Yellow Kid Weil's famed Chicago confidence gang reported: "In all my life I never heard of a racket man padding an expense account...
...Santayana is a very agreeable man, with good manners. . . . He makes the impression on me of not knowing more about life than a kid-glove exposed for sale in a shop window...
...make it a stag organization Clem, or you would shut me out. I'm in my 82nd year and I stirred apple butter every Fall for years in the late 60s-in my kid days I didn't stir it in the back yard though. There was a house built over the spring on my father's farm in Pennsylvania. Downstairs was where the springwater ran through a big trough, and there was kept the milk "crocks," butter jars, etc. In that room, we churned the butter in a good old dasher churn...
...inspiration, clinging to the belief that art is born in discontent. "It seems to me," Artist Lasky has been quoted, ''that I could paint better, write better poetry, if I had to struggle to do it." To which Hollywood Producer Lasky replies: ''Don't kid yourself, little girl...
...Woman might conceivably have evoked renewed protest from her, not that it lacks scope for her remarkable dramatic range, but because it heaps tragedy upon her with Sophoclean relentlessness, and because its wearying, buskined tread cannot pretend to vie with her more smartly-stepping 1937 successes, Marked Woman and Kid Galahad...