Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name, reported the incident to their editors. Next day it was news indeed to small Jimmy Costello, son of Newark's city engineer, when the Daily News (echoed by the American) reported that Col. Lindbergh had looked at him and said: "I wish I had a kid like that." To observers of the tabloid press it was instructive to behold that, on the strength of this apocryphal remark, the yearning Daily News editor had inserted a picture of Col. Lindbergh's wife (unmentioned in the story) and headlined: LINDY WANTS...
...Arizona Kid (Fox). To Warner Baxter and Fox Films went the first prize of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for In Old Arizona (TIME, April 21). This sequel is written around the same character from O. Henry's story and acted by the same Baxter. It is one more piece of evidence that the "western," already an eminently successful cinematic formula, has in one way been energized and in another way sterilized by the sound device. Frontier atmosphere, crystallized in words and incidental noises, and the opportunity offered to expert modern photographers by frontier hillscapes have proved...
...Texan (Paramount). This is another western, more elaborate than The Arizona Kid and less legitimate, with a mother-love angle and Gary Cooper as the bandit who conceals his identity. Like Warner Baxter he is an 0. Henry character-"A Double-Dyed Deceiver" has been retouched by Oliver .H. P. Garrett-but he is no Arizona Kid. Background is an element which must be weighed carefully in appraising the characters of disguised bandits called Kid. Gary Cooper is the Llano Kid. He is about to cheat an old South American woman out of all her worldly goods when his better...
...Houston, Texas, W. H. Strebeck. barber, vaunts: "I'll match my kid against any other youngster his age for intelligence." His "kid" Edwin, 2 years, 7 months, has been smoking three big cigars a day since...
Clinging to her father's arm, Bride Edda arrived in the first motor car. Father as well as daughter seemed flushed with excitement. Amid cheers they entered the church, he in faultless morning clothes, she in a sleek white satin dress trailing to her ankles, shoulder length white kid gloves, and a superb lace bridal veil the gift of the Italian Senate, this surmounted by a narrow wreath of orange blossoms. Bride Edda's bouquet was an armful of roses white as snowballs...