Word: kidded
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...just happened. I don't know a damn thing about elephants. It wasn't that, I was thinking in terms of humans, and I saw a chance to do a character without using any cheap theatrics. Most of the expressions and mannerisms I got from my own kid...
...Boudreau, a handsome, intelligent kid just two years out of college, is younger (by two and three years respectively) than Bucky Harris and Joe Cronin were when they first became managers of the Washington Senators. He would be the youngest manager in big-league history, had not Roger Peckinpaugh (whom Boudreau supplanted last week) once, at 23, managed the New York Yankees for two weeks...
...could not promise thatadvertising -any more than the consumer industries it chiefly serves-would not suffer in the defense program. ("I wouldn't try to kid professionals.") But he relied on his listeners to evolve some new uses for their "brilliant technics" that would keep them busy in war as in peace...
...YORK--Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, 37, who rose to the vice-presidency in Brooklyn's Murder, Inc., through hard work and viciousness, bungled an attempt to escape police guards today and plunged from the sixth story of a Coney Island Hotel to a death as sudden as any he had inflicted on his known 11 victims...
...fought his first professional fight-on the preliminary card at Madison Square Garden the night Fritzie Zivic won the welterweight title from Negro Henry Armstrong. Hammering Henry was Ray's ring hero. When he saw Zivic pound his hero's face into a tomato-red pulp, the kid sobbed: "Some day I'm gonna grow big enough to get even with him for what he did to Hank...