Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guests went in to dinner "according to the Spanish Court rules of precedence." With new Habsburg economy, they fared frugally on fish, meat, fruit, coffee. Next day aristocrats returned to the castle where they found Otto standing by his mother. He was dressed in a cutaway coat, wore white kid gloves this time. One by one they kissed his right hand, swore fealty to the new Head of the House of Habsburg. In the castle chapel Monsignor Seydel, former court chaplain in Vienna, pro nounced a benediction, sang a Te Deum...
Billy the Kid (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Undoubtedly the new vogue of westerns has been stimulated by critics who arraigned the cinema for losing its integrity in dull photographs of stage plays. Now King Wallis Vidor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ace director, with the help of the company's best dialog writers, Laurence Stallings and Charles MacArthur, has deliberately turned back to the old westerns as models in an attempt to reproduce the virtues that have reappeared only occasionally in pictures since the western became outmoded-speed, action, outdoor settings, and the suspense of the greatest and simplest...
...York declared : "The city is very proud of you!" Into talking-cinema microphones Hero Franklin spoke English: "Give me the good old American girl," and Spanish: "Commend me to the charming senoritas of Spain." Of the Spanish King he said: "He strikes me as just a big kid." Then he retired into the bosom of his family, which consists of father, mother, four sisters, three brothers, inhabitants of a modest Brooklyn house...
...have just finished reading The Kid, a juvenile by Mary Biddle Titler (Harper's, N. Y.) Her first book Reddy was published a year ago, and is in its sixth edition, nearly 10,000 copies sold to date. The first edition was 2,000, and its success warranted Harper to make the first edition of The Kid 4,000. I understand the life of most juveniles is only 5,000 altogether. I quote these figures to substantiate my personal opinion...
...Polo Grounds, Manhattan, Eligio ("Kid Chocolate") Sardinias, jaunty 128-lb. Cuban Negro who has won 167 fights, turned around as the whistle blew and led a flashy jab at the chin of Jack ("Kid") Berg, 135-lb. cockney...