Word: toy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were first sobs, blown against the cheek by the wind. Small, individual parts of the mass buttoned coats, donned cellophane slickers, threw newspapers over their heads. The sobs became hysterical weeping, and water slashed upon the stands and upon twenty-two men playing like intent children with a pigskin toy...
...TIME, Aug. 16). Even more striking are the results that have been attained in the last four years by changing the design of airplane propellers. Until 1933 there had been only two major improvements in the paper airscrew invented by Leonardo da Vinci some 450 years before to pull toy helicopters to the ceiling of his study. One was the Wright Brothers' development of a two-bladed '"prop" of laminated wood, the other the shift in the 19205 to aluminum alloy blades whose pitch could be adjusted on the ground to suit various operating conditions...
...little boy is saving his nickels to buy a $1 zeppelin so that he and his pal can go to the Klondike in it. When the zeppelin arrives, they are disappointed that it turns out to be a toy...
...huge and comparatively untapped source of cinema revenue is 16-mm. and 8-mm. film. There are currently estimated to be some 2,000,000 small projectors in the U. S. There would be many more if there were films better worth projecting on them than badly manufactured, pirated "toy" reproductions of antique features or travel films, amateur productions made with miniature cameras, "educational" releases. Recently U. S. owners of miniature projection machines have encountered the first move to bring coherence to the minimovies by developing them as an outlet for newsreels. It was News Parade, a group of three...
...their Brooklyn home two months ago. One evening last week Noel found himself alone with Sister Dolores. When the mother came upon them the girl was dead. Scratches and bruises on her made police jump to the conclusion that jealous Noel had beaten her to death with his toy airplane. But the medical examiner, Dr. George W. Ruger, absolved the boy, certified that the infant's death was due to sudden enlargement of her thymus...