Word: toy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Natives' Representative Council, which had been set up in 1936 to assist Parliament in making laws affecting Negroes. Its six government-appointed white members and 16 Negroes (twelve of them elected) formed a purely advisory body. "The N.R.C.," one of its members once said, "is like a toy telephone, with the Negroes at one end and the government at the other. We've turned the handle and spoken into it, but there is no reply." Premier Malan's government made a characteristic reply. It took away the telephone...
...past, Matisse's studio had always been as gay as a toy shop, sparkling with pinned-up scraps of colored paper, polished brass bric-a-brac and bright swatches of silk. This time it was chaste and bare. The only colored paper cutouts that remained looked like designs for stained glass windows, which they were...
Double Trouble. In Leeds, England, Mrs. Doris Leake frantically told doctors that a toy wheel had been swallowed by one of her 18-month-old twins - she didn't know which...
...beat, Alfred W. Conley '49 (above right) is thinking of using his experiences in his thesis. He says that kids are all the same, "The girls ask first dolls, then doll houses, and finally accessories for dolls; boys just want toy trucks...
With facts like these, Toy hopes to shame Delaware into action. Members' speeches, once buried in the back of newspapers, now make the front pages. Some school districts have taken an interest in trustee elections for the first time in years. Others have even voted to raise their own school taxes. Toy doesn't expect to lick the whole problem once & for all. Says he: "Interest will die down, and the schools will deteriorate. That will be the time for someone to start the cycle all over again...