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Word: kidding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Epstein so well in hand that he let Miss Guinan lunch (once) at Havre's Frascati's. Vive la petite fille?then bang! From Paris the Director General of the Surete Generale, M. Maurier, telegraphed that nobody was to be let out of the pen. M. Epstein, Miss Guinan & kids were undone. Kid Anne Boleyn started general hysterics by screaming: "We'll never get to Paris! I want to go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mrs. Belmont's Miss Guinan | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...Lake Garda, Italy, Loretta Turnbull, 18-year-old Monrovia, Calif, out-boarder, competed against the best professional drivers in Europe for the PFN cup, put up by the Fascist Party in a meet organized by Poet-Out boarder Gabriele d'Annunzio. She drove her Sunkist Kid V across the line first in the first heat, second in the next after fixing her motor which had faltered at the start, won the cup on her average time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Albany to New York | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...home in St. Louis. His wife heard him repeat the details of a hurry-call for his services; then Dr. Kelley drove away in his car. He did not return that night, nor the next day. . . . Soon St. Louis papers blared their favorite, almost their stereotyped headline: Kid-napped? It was St. Louis' 13th kidnap case in 16 months; and, as in the case of 13-year-old Adolphus Busch Orthwein (TIME, Jan. 19 et ante}, a wealthy and prominent victim. (Mrs. Kelley is a daughter of the late William Cullen McBride, rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Missouri Newshawks (Cont'd) | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...Albany, N. Y., a gypsy caravan was arrested for traffic violation. Asked to produce bail, the gypsy chief handed the judge his small baby, said: "Keep the kid." The judge demurred. The tribe gave $4 bond, did not reappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Matches | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...KID HIMSELF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

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