Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William ("Kid") Gleason. 67. oldtime second baseman on the famed Baltimore Orioles ("I'd let 'em slide to the bag, then kick 'em and slap the ball down on their conks"); of heart trouble; in Philadelphia. After exposure of the sale of the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati...
Held in St. Louis for possession of $20,000 in bonds believed stolen was famed, suave Swindler "Yellow Kid" Weil, 54. Asked what had become of his beard, he replied: "Gone since 1918. It was like this. With that yellow-red beard that got me my name, I looked just like J. Ham [Hamilton] Lewis, the Senator from Illinois. . . . Sometimes it caused complications for me and, I suppose, for him, too. So I did the handsome thing...
...Manhattan, small Eligio Sardinias ("Kid Chocolate"), Cuban featherweight who looks as though he were made out of varnished ebony matchsticks, was defending his championship against Fidel La Barba, flyweight champion who defaulted his title five years ago to complete his education at Stanford. It was the 12th round and La Barba - who had been steadily pounding his left fist against Chocolate's ribs and getting his own head steadily thumped while doing so - had finally found the opening he wanted. He brought his left fist up, hard, against the point of Chocolate's jaw. Chocolate teetered, rolled...
Tracy: "A row of farmers is a circus man's rosary. . . . Never give a sucker an even break, 'cause it's dog eat dog all along the line. . . . For every kid that's born with a dollar there's twins born on the other side of the street aiming to take it away from him. ... So the only way to make a ten strike is to strike up the band. . . . Anyway, what the heck...
...Said a Mouthful (First National) is an infinitely less handsome picture than The Kid from Spain (see col. 2) but it follows the same pattern. Instead of being forced by circumstance and his own idiocy to be a bullfighter, its addled hero (Joe E. Brown) finds himself the favored entrant in a marathon swimming race. This is a predicament: he does not know how to swim...