Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persuaded him to sign a contract for three pictures by promising to select and direct them all. Having completed the first, afraid of losing his appeal for U. S. audiences by becoming too thoroughly Americanized, Actor Gravet recently returned to Paris, where he maintains an army of 30,000 toy soldiers of which a few members always travel with their owner...
...than usual, introduces six lindy hoppers, who add considerable zest to the program, and presents a home-made band which nearly steals the show. This group, led by a colored gentleman who is even lazier than Steppin Fetchil, swings high and swings low on a washboard, a couple of toy trumpets, a guitar, a decrepit piano, and a siap bass...
...course of the whole 129 in either set would last 16 years. Two-year-olds have a new test, consisting mainly of a box of toy objects, such as an automobile and a shoe, which they can identify by pointing and gurgling. Older children point out the larger of two balls, detect verbal and pictorial absurdities. "Superior adults" restate proverbs in their own words, fill out blanks in sentences, find antonyms...
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. refused the request of twelve-year-old Calvin Kuiper of Sheboygan, Wis. for "a few gold bars" to melt up for toy soldiers...
...Newton, Mass., District Judge Harry C. Fabien upheld the police by enjoining five citizens from letting their dogs trespass on the property of Realtor Edmond M. Pulin. His 3-lb. toy Chihuahua bitch, explained Realtor Pulin, was the lure which drew the five trespassers-an English bull, a German shepherd, two collies, a Great Dane...