Word: toy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...built (1854) and operated by the State, became a political toy train. At one time in North Carolina it was considered almost as disgraceful to be without an A. & N.C. pass as to vote Republican. In 1904 the State leased the line to Norfolk Southern, got it back in 1935 when Norfolk Southern (in receivership) could not keep up the rent. Under State operation again, the A. & N.C. was a red-ink factory. Only by forgetting about repairs was the State able to hold its four-year deficit down...
...18th-Century Bergen County Dutch house in Tenafly, N.J., which he has filled to the eaves with U.S. antiques, some of them of very dubious authenticity. There, in an attic studio, surrounded by three stripling sons who alternately bawl, play the clarinet and scatter the floor with toy electric train tracks, he works methodically with a crow quill pen because it produces a large variety of thin and thick lines...
Carrying "Baby X" on a Hollywood set, Marlene Dietrich tripped on a toy fire engine, twisted as she lunged to break the baby's fall, snapped one of the world's two most famous legs at the ankle. . . Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano had his tonsils out. . .Cinemactress Brenda Marshall had an appendectomy week after husband William Holden. . .Publicity Division: Cinemactress Brenda Joyce's teeth were picked by the Southern California Dental Association as the swellest in Hollywood. . . Warner Bros. insured the beard of Monty Woolley (The Man Who Came to Dinner...
...Nothing mattered but John. . . ." / / Composer Walter Joseph Donaldson, who sang of domestic bliss in My Blue Heaven, sued Dorothy Ann Donaldson for divorce. She countered with a suit for separate maintenance of $175 a week, / / Minsky Stripper Rose La Rose sued for a divorce from J. Harrington Price, retired toy manufacturer. She told New York Sunday News reporters that after a hard day's work she had to put on an extra show at home while Price played his mouth organ. "In the theater I have my audience and am inspired," she said. "There was no inspiration performing...
...President James Bryant Conant a small fleet of toy destroyers, to convoy him back and forth on his scientific missions...