Word: playroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brightly colored playroom that is not as innocent as it looks, the youngsters are exposed to temptation, have their curiosity aroused and are purposely frustrated while an observer watches them through a one-way screen; even moving pictures can be taken of the unsuspecting youngsters through a mirror that is really a window...
Jack and Jill, while a modern magazine for modern moppets, will not thrust aside the traditional Teddy-bear atmosphere and playroom gear of the child's World to reveal the razzle-dazzle streamlined machine age of rocketing Buck Rogers. Designed to tweak the curiosity of young readers or listeners will be stories giving a sound if rudimentary picture of the physical world and modern industry. Novel literary features include: vocational stories "appealing to the child's deep interest in the motorman, the fireman, the engineer, etc."; "Paper Tearing," a section "designed to satisfy a child's constant...
...also 500 rooms in the towers which are reserved for residential suites. It is estimated that 2,000 employees will work to make life run smoothly for the patrons. The hotel also offers such features as circulating ice-water, vita glass windows for permanent guests who desire it, a playroom for children and a special children's barber, a ''sitting room" for guests' servants...
...smashed the buggy on the pole, But that was long ago. Now the tired old horse is happy in his way, For he dreams he still can hear his master say, "Turn tid-di-ly um bum, Giddap!" Composer Woodin has six grandchildren for whom he has built a playroom on the top floor of his Manhattan penthouse. He tries out his children's songs on them, finds them frank critics. Concerning his grown-up music and its performance, Composer Woodin is modest, hopes people will not think he considers