Word: doll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statistical weighting because they are "now a part of national life." More weight will be allowed for mechanical refrigeration, less for ice. The proportion for rent will be increased because of the fading of rent control. Among new items that may be added next year: beer and a toy doll...
...After their stint, Joan and some other pickets fanned out to cover their regular W-T & S beats for the strikers' 15-minute daily "radio newspaper," Seven Star Final, on three New York stations five nights a week. Once a week, strikers dropped into headquarters, in a doll factory, to collect benefits...
...picture's unorthodoxy is less successful when it comes to romance. Stewart woos and wins Sonseeahray (Debra Paget*), a doll-like Indian maiden half his age and size. The love story becomes so precious that it often strains the film's fine sense of realism...
...dangers of not driving carefully are dramatically demonstrated to the student salesman by a little red toy wagon driven by a male doll which carelessly smashes the wagon against a stone (the instruction book thoroughly lists, among the required props, "one stone about half the size of your fist"). The point: "Because he didn't take proper care of his little red wagon, Juan was out of business" (PAUSE BRIEFLY AND LOOK AT MEN SO AS TO ALLOW POINT TO SINK...
...room Desert Inn not only boasted a huge pool and a 35-ft. colored fountain, but in deference to gamblers with "kiddies," a king-size doll house. It had a temperamental French chef named Maurice who specialized in things served on flaming swords (said one awed gambler: "The guy gets excited over a steak"). It boasted a $22,000-a-week floor show, with a chorus line rivaling Manhattan's Copa Girls, Ray Noble's orchestra, Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and a trio of French tumblers...