Word: kids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid much attention to Joan until she took time out last fall to have a baby. When she returned, the audience in general gave her the big hello. And the boys out front, perhaps partly to kid the Sinatrians, "began to moan and groan" over Joan. The antiphonal chorus bids fair to become a national pastime...
...takes it in his stride. He has an inherent sense of balance and proportion on the ground as well as in the air which this correspondent believes is so well rooted nothing will upset it. ... He has a touch of iciness ... of truly Arctic proportions. . . . But this kid is a 'speed demon'. . . . Numerous white hairs have been caused by his jeep-driving. . . . [He] apparently has a notion that cars were made to travel on two wheels...
...like to fell dead when I saw this kid work...
...citizens of Piqua, Ohio (pronounced Pick-wah) who well remembered Tavernkeeper Patsy Gentile's boy Dominic as the high-school kid who used to buzz St. Boniface's Church in his Arrow Sport biplane, the Eighth's announcement of 30 planes was good enough. They solemnly petitioned President Roosevelt to let Hero Gentile come home...
Nowadays, U.S. troops in England even kid one another about their medals. (A standing wisecrack: "He got that medal for preventing rape; he changed his mind.") But the U.S. is not the only reputable army with a lot on its chest. Russian officials joyfully announced last week that over 2,000,000 decorations had been bestowed on Soviet heroes. The Rus-sian Army has seen a lot more fighting than the U.S. Army, but in proportion to estimated size, this is at least eight times as much kudos as the U.S. Army has distributed...