Word: toy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About Fantasia: Probably no single occasion has demonstrated more compellingly the visual possibilities in great music. When you or I listen to the Nutcracker Suite, we have a vague picture of toy flutes, Chinamen, Arabians, sugarplum fairies--anything the program tells us to hear. When Walt Disney hears it, there are created whole new imaginative worlds of dewdrops, mushrooms, tadpoles, thistles, and autumn leaves. The more visual-minded you are, probably the more you will enjoy Fantasia; plenty of people on the other hand are going to find the patterns on the screen nothing but a distraction. Particularly...
...widely in Britain, so plenty of that was hung up last week, but there was none of the usual mistletoe from France, and bussing went on without it. One daring London shop did a good business selling white satin nighties with green mistletoe appliqued. British moppets openly scorned peacetime toys as "sissy" and responsive British parents bought plenty of dolls togged in gas decontamination suits for little girls, plenty of toy war equipment for lads...
...demands a water chaser, which he uses as a finger bowl; with each drink he requires a fresh chaser, because "I never like to bathe in the same water twice." He is allergic to the mere presence of children. When he spies an urchin in his bank, brandishing a toy pistol, Fields pounces like a terrier on a rat, has to be pulled off by the child's mother. He follows his steady nose through the most sidesplitting chase sequences since the days of the Keystone cops. He is surrounded but not obscured by such accomplices as Franklin Pangborn...
...occasion marked the latest tests of the Marines' newest fighting machine, no screwball toy but the result of seven years of trial & error by 325-pound Sportsman-Inventor Donald Roebling. Originally conceived by Wire Ropeman John A. Roebling as a vessel of mercy and rescue in time of flood, the Roebling-dubbed "Alligator" caught the eye of the Marines, ever watchful for inventions likely to simplify the basic (and most dangerous) maneuver of the Corps, i.e., landing on hostile shores...
...Lionel Corp. (toy trains) declared a 25? extra dividend, inspired Scripps-Howard Cartoonist Will Johnstone to suggest a way for bankrupt roads to get back in the money...