Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pleasant words are more effective. When children refused to dress a doll, the teacher got much better results by saying "Please do" than by scolding: "I don't understand why you refuse. . . . You shouldn't refuse to dress the doll." Exception: to the pleasant approach one peewee responded: "Nuts...
...dances which would seem shockingly sedate to modern audiences. It does so, however, without demolishing their charm and elegance. The songs that tinkle across the sound track-In My Merry Oldsmobile, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, Oh, You Beautiful Doll and a dozen others-are calculated to evoke an era when alligators lived only in swamps, or zoos. And they succeed so completely that when Vernon Castle's plane crashes at Fort Worth, even the inevitable closing shot, in which Irene tells the band to keep on playing, acquires dignity...
...realist. At five, having been carefully deceived as to the manner of birth of his sister Maria, Diego was discovered in the kitchen making an incision into a mouse's belly. At eight, he caused even greater consternation when he and Maria were found playing house with the doll-like corpse of a brother who died in infancy...
That made Institutions the leader of the Industry and Finance section. And that made President Compton of M. I. T., chairman of Institutions, the recipient of the Campaign's first prize, a thirty inch high Orphan Annie doll...
Because they are full of martial naïveté, doll-like action and nicely faded coloring, these pictures delight shrewd, big-boyish Manhattan Publisher Bennet A. Cerf, who last year published The Public Papers & Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week Publisher Cerf announced that his Random House will publish the Meyers drawings this year, with an introduction by Mr. Roosevelt-a Presidential picture book in a limited edition of 1,000 copies...