Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four-year-old son of Antwerp's port administrator came to the rescue, silenced the weeping Princess by presenting her with a large pink-cheeked sailor doll with S.S. Princess Josephine Charlotte in gold letters on his hatband...
...Baldwin's most notable previous lottery coup (TIME, Jan. 21, 1929): for sixpence she bought the right to guess the names of a boy and a girl doll: guessed "Stanley" and "Lucy" (her husband's name and her own), won the dolls which had been thus named by the apple-cheeked girl in the booth. "I knew you d guess them!" cried she. "We named them 'specially in hopes you would...
Pictures and comment in the Parisian journals made the homeless waifs the idols of the warm-hearted French. Some enterprising merchant fashioned a Siamese-twin-like yarn doll representing a boy and a girl which was immediately seized upon by the Poilu as a good luck fetish to be worn around the neck. Soon everyone wore them in every Allied army...
...Chicago, police hastened to rescue a waif wailing "MaMa" among some bushes. It was a large talking doll forgotten on a bush and being bumped about by the wind...