Word: erector
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been sitting here tonight, brooding over this matter while pawing the typewriter keys. Christmas is upon him--and only ties, handkerchiefs, gloves, and such stuff in prospect. Where are the days when Vag could tingle with the expectation of an electric train? Erector sets--where are they? What has become of the Lightning Glider that used to nestle under the living room tree? They were thing worth getting up at six o'clock in the morning to go down and see! But now--well, Christmas is losing all its glamor. A tour of the toy departments of the department stores...
...want to go to commencements, to catch snakes, to make fireworks, to play with Erector Sets, to write plays, to do ballet dancing all over the house, to print menus in the living room, fine and dandy. Any of these things is much better than working. But before giving full sanction to this joyous, carefree mode of life, we must observe that it all rests on the money the Grandpa made before that one morning when he decided in the elevator going up to his office that he didn't want to may any more money, and turned around...
...each and sold them for $25 each. After this venture he went into the magic business, manufacturing sets of card tricks, false hats for jugglers and accessories for vaudeville magicians. Presently A. C. Gilbert thought up the idea of a child's construction toy which he called Erector; his company now sells 350,000 sets a year. At Yale, where he is on the Board of Athletic Control, A. C. Gilbert still has time to see that the vaulters get the best possible coaching and equipment. His New Haven home, in addition to his own works on handkerchief tricks...
...said to be the best, but even so, one wonders. Just like the real league in Geneva, they say, so splendid to arouse interest in international affairs, and at the same time it teaches how the diplomatic machinery works. Of course, there is always the smiling Mr. Gilbert's Erector...