Word: toy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this gallery emerge two of Dostoevsky's most brilliant creations. One is aged Prince Sokolsky, a kindly, nutty, wealthy widower who loves to toy with the idea of marrying again-and is dumfounded to learn that his rapacious heirs are plotting to have him shut up in an asylum. The other is Versilov, Arkady's father, a shrewd but patient man who well comprehends the feelings of insult and injury that seethe inside his illegitimate...
...camel, Walter Pidgeon seems uncomfortable enough describing a provocative negligee to a Smart Shop salesgirl, or dancing the Big Apple in a patched-up farmhouse. The misunderstood Miss Allyson and her confused stop-mother, Claudette Colbert, also try hard, but the highlight of the picture is a novel toy that spells out "I love you" whenever somebody spins it. This intriguing device again proves that MGM can always dig up something entertaining--even though it's not always a movie...
...Bannion (Lloyd Bridges) and his radio-executive wife Kate (Kay Stewart) spent the better part of three acts belaboring each other for deciding not to have a baby; they settled their aimless and inexplicable quarrels by leaving their high-playing jobs to settle in Rochester where Joe could toy with chemicals and tuberculosis at the Mayo Clinic for $1800 a year...
From the Hammond brain came oddments, too: a cigaret case and lighter, toy locomotives, a naval war game. Also a hair restorer, inspired by his own bald spot...
This week U.S. children had toys, candy and all the trimmings that traditionally go with Christmas. But it was a safe bet that no toy on Christmas Day aroused more ecstasy than a pair of new shoes given to a little boy in the U.S. zone of far-off Vienna. The little boy was an orphan. Like most of the children he knew, he had cause to realize that mere warmth, mere survival, are incomparably precious...