Word: kidded
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...have to win them, pester them, and change your attack with every visit. You have to kid and joke. You have got to put serious truths in their own language. You have got to be at their beck and call 24 hours a day and at last one day they may ask you to hear their Confessions. There's no easy job in this chaplain's work. One of my classmates . . . once said that the job of saving souls is like trying to catch snowflakes in a tin cup. It's still tougher in the Army...
Roddy MacDowell is a good kid who tries like blazes to act--and does get away with it--though the legion of child-actor-haters will find much to carp about; but Lassie makes the picture. The dog is just a natural trouper, that...
...were not yet committed, came over the edge of the ditch. He sat down and bubbled: "We just pulled into that haystack ahead at 3 a.m. when an old woman in the farmhouse started having a baby. Doc Rhodes delivered the brat. He weighed about seven pounds-a nice kid. The Italians wanted Doc to name the kid and Doc decided to name him after me. We got in an interpreter and named him 'Guglielmo.' That's for me, Guglielmo Rosson...
...Repose. He had earned his rest. Few men can ever have gone through more plain hell trying to find a place in the special hell of battle. Ben Kuroki's father was a seed-potato grower in Hershey, Neb., a town of about 500 people. Ben and his kid brother Fred (now overseas with an engineer outfit) volunteered for the Army two days after Pearl Harbor, were accepted a month later. Ben landed in the Air Forces and started to run his personal gantlet at Sheppard Field...
There have been likable kid plays (e.g., the current Kiss and Tell) that have left a young girl's reputation hanging on a hickory limb, only to show in the end that she didn't go near the water. Such plays are made ingratiating by the author's tact and talent. But Wallflower's playwrights are unfortunately lacking in real...