Word: doll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doll. Last week in the old Ellenton, narcissuses and camellias still bloomed around the angry scars where once there were homes. A hound dog snoozed in the sun on worn brick steps that led to a void. A rag doll lay in the dust. On the blackboard of the village school a childish hand had written in big round letters: "Goodbye, dear school. Goodbye." Galphin Dunbar, 73, a descendant of the family originally granted the land around Ellenton by King George II two centuries ago, sat brooding on a baggage dolly in the railroad shed. "I'm gonna leave...
...Send No Money." "FREE, FREE, FREE!" cried Sears' catalogue in big bold letters-then added, in small type at the bottom of the page: "to see and examine at the Express office." Once he advertised a sofa and two chairs for 95?; buyers were flabbergasted to get doll's furniture...
...youngsters got their first boost in the waiting room. Thanks to the Variety Club of New England, one of the "angels" financing the new building, there was a layout of electric trains, a television set, a miniature merry-go-round, and a rack of dolls. If a little girl got attached to a doll, she could keep it; there were more where it came from. Corridor walls were covered with such Disney favorites as Pinocchio and Snow White...
When a mother learns that her baby is blind, she usually reacts like a little girl taking care of a "sick" doll-she babies it, overprotects it, cushions it from bumps and bruises. Too often she feels shame and self-pity, and a vague sense of divine punishment. Chicago social workers had seen a lot of this: when they got the parents of a group of blind children together in 1948, they saw youngsters of four or five still being bottle-fed and in baby carriages...
...Karloff doll for little Gwendolyn...