Word: toy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burden of the patriotic dissertation by Messrs. Beaverbrook, Truman, Willkie was the same as that written in heart's blood on countless memos on the President's toy-cluttered desk: give the war effort a single director, give that director total powers. It was the chant of industry, the roar of the press. It was what the people had wanted since June...
...which they were immemorially anchored. Deep in their earth, when they dug a well, they found ancestral shards; and Ling Tan felt that he owned not merely the boundaries of his farm but a whole column of creation, straight through the planet, and straight into those unreadable stars whose toy-like glinting made friendly a night which would otherwise have been too dark...
Tires use up about 75% of U.S. rubber stocks. The other 25% has gone into 50,000 different civilian uses.* For U.S. women: no more elastic girdles and foundation garments. For children: no more teething rings, rubber rattles, bathtub toys. Circuses and parades will suffer: no more rubber balloons, no more giant rubber figures. Toy airplanes, automobiles, tricycles, scooters will no longer be rubber-tired...
...morning the small fry would come bouncing into bedrooms, shouting Merry Christmas and itching to dive at the filled-up stockings, the boxes under the trees. Soon whole families, in bathrobes and dressing gowns, would be engulfed by billows of wrapping paper, the whir of toy trains, the squeals of genuine or counterfeit surprise...
...till now, Weinrich has been known to the public through these Musicraft discs, recorded on the squeaky, piping little "Practorius" organ at Princeton. Working with that tiny instrument that seems almost like a toy, Weinrich has consistently produced the best organ records on the market. His record of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, for instance, easily surpasses all of the D minor, for instance, casily surpasses all of the other four versions, three of which are recorded on large-scale organs, and one of which is in an opulent orchestral transcription. Certainly if there is any organist...