Word: urchin
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...game hunting on Plympton Street: gentleman in first floor room of Adams squat C-section is annoyed by urchin--flung snowball; gentleman, entertaining woman, thinks valor the better part of discretion; gentleman, being sportsman, has double-barrelled shotgun; gentleman, being copiously refreshed with liquid refreshments, grabs gun and runs out into street; woman, being likewise, follows, coat absent and hair flying in the wind; gentleman, supported on the slippery ice by woman, aims gun at urchin; urchin, being heroic, stands ground, grabs snow, molds missile, projects it with zeal and fervor; woman, being on ice and copiously refreshed, dedges...
Nearing the end of his fabulous career as a child actor, Jackie Cooper*, now 9, according to the Motion Picture Almanac, but so mature that gestures with his tongue will soon seem idiotic, makes Bill Peck a lovable urchin, sure to appeal to all chronic admirers of juvenile pictures. For making Peck's Bad Boy enjoyable also to less susceptible cinemaddicts, small Jackie Searl deserves the credit. A brat whose thin, disdainful, pasty face has made him villain in so many films that he has been called the Boris Karloff of his generation, he acts with his customary blood...
...newsboys there are in the U. S. The International Association of Circulation Managers claims 570,000 under 18 years. The 1930 census showed 21,700 under 16 years. The National Child Labor Committee reckons 100,000 under 16, 50,000 under 14. The totals include not only the tattered urchin hawking his wares at street corners in sun or rain but also the well-fed youngster who puts in an hour or two after school serving a delivery route in the residential district. But whatever their number and their methods of work, U. S. newsboys were this week...
...neighboring plot the younger CRIMSON nine was practicing: our cubs as we affectionately call them. They were getting along in splendid fashion with a large crowd watching them whom suddenly a little urchin standing near third base called out: "Hey give us back our ball and bat. We wanna play by ourselves." Our men tested out some reserve who said his name was Morison but they were not satisfied and kept asking for their bat. This was finally returned to them and then the whole crowd suddenly disappeared...
...Crackpot! Crackpot!" echoed many a tough East Side urchin as Teacher walked into her classroom next day. Before long it was plain that, whether or not 1,500 of them were insane, all 36,000 of the city's teachers were hopping mad. Indignant mass-meetings called for a reprimand, for proof, for Dr. Altman's dismissal, for an investigation of his competence by the New York Academy of Medicine. "He sees insanity in everybody," cried Dr. Abraham Lefkowitz of the Teachers Union...