Word: kidded
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...usually refer to the British Monarch as "George V,'' and couch the rest of the reference in language which suggests the outlook of a Kahlege Kid from the Bible Belt, rather than of the only newspaper with a modern orientated intelligence published in the Anglo-Saxon tongue...
...There is no law prohibiting a company union as such if there is no interposition whatever by employers, and if the men freely choose it. But 99 out of 100 times, you and I know that this is not the case. Let's not kid ourselves, let us act before Congress acts, call in Senator Wagner's board. Let your men express their choice under those public auspices from which no question can arise. Let's get this troublesome question settled and for all time...
...Avery Memorial wing of the Wadsworth Athenaeum and sponsored by "The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music." This New England organization is headed by A. Everett ("Chick") Austin Jr., a rich young Hartforder who directs the Hartford Museum and knew Virgil Thomson at Harvard when that young composer wore kid gloves to scull on the Charles...
...indicated by the pronunciation, the correct spelling of this crime is kidnapping, (to nab a kid) and not "kidnaping" (perhaps to grab a child by the nape of the neck). We feel very incensed about this, and live in mortal fear of the day when the newspapers, not content to leave the extra "me" in program or pogrom, knock superfluous words from the names of the great. Picture to yourself such a headline, "Presidents Rosevelt, Hover, Lowel, Angel, and Con'nt confer with orators Ramsey M'Donald, Graham M'Namee...
...been broke. His third wife and daughter Anna, 10, have long been cared for by Mrs. J. P. Cudahy of the packing family. Now and then he picked up a little money as a racetrack tipster, a baseball umpire, a film extra. Once he and his good friend "Kid McCoy," oldtime prizefighter and ex-convict, were in such straits that McCoy wheedled climes from a street crowd to view "the strangest dwarf in the world." When he showed them Sloan, McCoy explained: "I bet you never saw such a big dwarf in your life...