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  • Stars carried guns, bosses treated overworked and beleaguered employees with kid-gloved respect, and movie magnates left town for well-timed impromptu vacations.

    Tom Gregory: Hit and Run in the Beverly Hills Bermuda Triangle Tom Gregory 2010

  • Stars carried guns, bosses treated overworked and beleaguered employees with kid-gloved respect, and movie magnates left town for well-timed impromptu vacations.

    Tom Gregory: Hit and Run in the Beverly Hills Bermuda Triangle Tom Gregory 2010

  • After nocking his arrow, he leaned back and aimed at the sky, as if to shoot the sun; then he drew the bowstring with a kid-gloved hand.

    Hidden Kingdom 2007

  • Mayo kid-gloved the Rushdie question and then let Yusuf Islam get away with his usual two-faced revisionist platitudes about the "interpretation" of the Koran.

    7/7 - FOUR YEARS ON 2009

  • After nocking his arrow, he leaned back and aimed at the sky, as if to shoot the sun; then he drew the bowstring with a kid-gloved hand.

    Hidden Kingdom 2007

  • This is exemplified every day in the ready demand for foreign-born skilled labor over our own people, usually educated as gentlemen without means, as if they were to be kid-gloved fellows, not men who must contend for subsistence with the horny-handed men who have graduated from the machine shops and factories and the schools of applied sciences of Europe.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • This is exemplified every day in the ready demand for foreign-born skilled labor over our own people, usually educated as gentlemen without means, as if they were to be kid-gloved fellows, not men who must contend for subsistence with the horny-handed men who have graduated from the machine shops and factories and the schools of applied sciences of Europe.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • This is exemplified every day in the ready demand for foreign-born skilled labor over our own people, usually educated as gentlemen without means, as if they were to be kid-gloved fellows, not men who must contend for subsistence with the horny-handed men who have graduated from the machine shops and factories and the schools of applied sciences of Europe.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • And I don't expect to be kid-gloved or anything else.

    An Interview with Helen Thomas 2007

  • This is exemplified every day in the ready demand for foreign-born skilled labor over our own people, usually educated as gentlemen without means, as if they were to be kid-gloved fellows, not men who must contend for subsistence with the horny-handed men who have graduated from the machine shops and factories and the schools of applied sciences of Europe.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

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