Word: doll
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dolls completely swept the German product from British doll marts, and clerks were enthusiastic. They banged the heads of the dolls against their counters, chirped at customers: "Just see-these American dolls are unbreakable...
...shall go back presently. But whatever Yokohama becomes I shall always see in it and behind it the ruined city, the piles of confused brick and heat-twisted iron, the china doll's head lying beside the whitened incinerated bones of the child, here where two were killed, there where two hundred were roasted alive, and it will always be a city of ghosts...
...When a child shows jealousy of a new baby, don't, say to him "Johnny loves baby." Give him a little extra attention, let him have a doll to jump...
Despite a $2000 endowment used to doll up the Princeton band in gaudy uniforms, observers came back with the impression that Harvard's penniless aggregation was able to outdo them...
...Mark chose when Aaron asked him what he would like in a picture. Friends have interpreted it as an allegory of the Spanish civil war: the straw general on horseback towering over the pacifist bull Ferdinand, war's destruction symbolized by the torn-out limbs of the rubber doll, monarchy lurking in the book Babar the King. Mark and Aaron both smile at this. They like the picture for the same reason others like it-because even when he chooses unpretty things to paint, Artist Bohrod's serio-comic detail tips the scale toward optimism...