Word: kids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about time we taught our children how to live. . . . A kid comes to school with a fresh, clean mind and an all-consuming desire to find out what life is all about. . . . [But we] accuse him of criminality for daring to be interested in some of the things which life is more about than anything else...
Around the Hollywood studios, everyone used to call quiet André Previn "the kid." But not any more: all of a sudden he had grown up. Last week, just before his 19th birthday, M-G-M assigned him to compose, score and direct the music for a $3,000,000 musical...
...last week, he expelled a New York Ranger hockey player-Billy ("The Kid") Taylor-from professional hockey for life. The charge: making a wager on a hockey game, which is an infraction of the rules. Campbell also suspended a Boston Bruins player-Don Gallinger-for associating with people like Parole Violator Jimmy Tamer, who wouldn't be mowing his lawn again for some time to come...
Philip Stack was a gas-company clerk when he sent his first shy offerings to Winchell. Winchell all but scared Stack away by giving him a byline. After that Stack was billed as the Melancholy Don, Kid Kazanova, Don Wahn, or Donna Wahnna -all trademarks of a kind of heartburn that became a regular Winchell symptom. Winchell never got a bill from him, never paid him and never met him, but the verses got Stack his greeting-card...
...journalists (even the women at the well) select facts. The myth, or fad, of "objectivity" tends to conceal the selection, to kid the reader into a belief that he is being informed by an agency above human frailty or human interest...