Word: kidded
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...PLEASE, PLEASE LET ME TALK TO A REPORTER POSSESSING SOME SENSE OF HUMOR. THOSE QUOTES ABOUT HIS BEING KNOWN AS "A HARD MAN WITH A DOLLAR" ARE MINE. THE GAG ABOUT HIS QUITTING PLACING $2 BETS AFTER ONE OF HIS ENTRIES FINISHED OUT OF THE MONEY IS MINE. I KID ABOUT BOB HOPE IN THE "SAME WAY THAT HOPE SPEAKS OF CROSBY AS "THE LITTLE FAT MAN WHO SINGS." AND WHEN A TIME CORRESPONDENT WALKS UP TO ME AT LAKESIDE GOLF COURSE AND WANTS SOME REMARKS ABOUT HOPE, I EXPECT THEM TO BE USED IN THE SPIRIT IN WHICH THEY...
Then Dad horns in and says, "Milk, hell, that kid is crying for TIME...
Last fall Zivic fought young Davis in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Zivic gave the kid the business. Davis, stung by an alleged thumb-poke in the eye, forgot his professional acquaintanceship with the Marquess of Queensberry, relapsed into a fury of fouls. Disqualified and suspended "for life" (after kicking the referee), the Brownsville bully boy sullenly joined the Army...
...twelfth round, Conn's sustained attack had the crowd on its feet, yelling. It was terrific. The fleet-fisted kid had confounded, dumfounded and dazed the greatest champion since Dempsey. On most ringside cards he was leading on points. Louis was obviously worried...
Aglow with confidence, Conn came out for the 13th round. "I got you, Joe," he had taunted. But the champ was not the champ for nothing. And The Kid was still a kid. Instead of continuing to jig & jab, Conn did just what he had been warned not to do: he sailed into shufflin' Joe, began swapping punches. This was what the cool-headed champ had been waiting for. Before the swaggering youngster knew what had struck him, he was staggering under a bombardments of rights & lefts. Two seconds before the bell, he was curled up on the canvas...