Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dearie I can hardly wait to see you to tell you but I don't suppose I'll ever be doing that again--I mean seeing you--what with you and the hub settled down to things and a kid to listen to when the anteny is silent which is not much around this place what with bro. taking out the inside of the local Music and Noise Inc., twenty-seven fifty and to be paid for when you're caught, and so forth. But as I stood up to remark when you let fall the receiver etc. your once...
...boxers were garbed in brown kid gloves and black tights, over which the champion draped a Canadian blanket, and Risko (Clevelander) wore a ringside cloak resembling a brown plaid bathrobe. These latter were dispensed with and the pasting began. Before the first round was over Mr. Berlenbach discovered that the 15 1/2 lb. he had given away were coming back to him with a vengeance. Most of these pounds seemed to be in Mr. Risko's left mitten. Toward the end of the first round the knowledge of how much weight he had given away came to Mr. Berlenbach...
...hero is a dusty little clerk who, through the facile mood of fantasy, finds himself face to face with himself as a boy. He was a freckled, active, vital kid. He is a pale and pulseless man. So the kid goes along with him for a while and stirs his spirit to the point of telling his boss to go to the devil and asking his girl to marry...
...begins in a Kentucky log cabin with one window, one door and a dirt floor. Lying on a pallet of cornhusks and bearskins, on Feb. 12, 1809, a slight, dark, grey-eyed woman with an accented chin and high cheekbones is delivered of a boy baby. A neighbor's kid runs down the road to see. "What you goin' to name him, Nancy?" Nancy Hanks Lincoln says, "Abraham, after his grandfather. . . . Be keerful, Dennis, fur you air the fust boy he's ever seen...
...maximum attendance at a New Year's reception was at Roosevelt's last?over 10,000. In 1922 President Harding had 6,500 and got a swollen hand, while Mrs. Harding wore out three pairs of kid gloves. President and Mrs. Coolidge had 4,890 guests in 1924, and 3,900 last year. George and Martha Washington inaugurated the New Year's reception (for invited guests) in her Court at the Executive Mansion in Manhattan. Andrew Jackson first opened the reception to the public...