Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week greying, hulking Alexander ("Sandy") Calder tried to explain to the press the collection of mysterious objects made of bits of wire, scraps of bright tin, cardboard, wood and strips of felt which, with a grinding of toy gears and hum of little electric motors, bounced and joggled, slithered and woggled in the Manhattan Gallery of Pierre Matisse. Artist Calder called them his "Mobiles." Other abstractions in bent wire and wood that did not move were called "Stabiles." Gallery-goers found them strangely exciting...
...White Rose of Boveway, was a study in rippling marble. Best working dog was the ugly, muscular boxer, Dorian von Marienhof, whose owner year ago incorporated him at $4,000, sold $1 shares to such folk as Jack Dempsey, Sally Rand, Jack Pearl (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936). The best toy, Tang Hao of Cavershawm Catawba, was, as usual, a Pekingese, a breed whose courage was demonstrated in Manhattan's Central Park last week when one of them, out of sheer pugnacity, committed suicide by attacking an Irish wolfhound. Other finalists were Torohill Smoky and the best terrier, a pert...
...Ross) who pinches pearls at a wedding, eludes the police, picks up a playboy (Robert Cummings) at a filling station, goes to a party at an idealized Seawanbaka yacht club, and winds up, after a good deal of dance and Provencal song, spending the night with him on his toy steamboat. This boat, a fascinating streamlined creature, rather like a cross between the Normandic and the San Francisco- Oakland ferry, carries a well stocked cellar, and gives more pleasure than any of the flesh and blood actors. But altogether the program provides disvertissement, and Rembrandt a little food for thought...
...fleeing across the soggy rear lawn and down the slope toward Commencement Bay, with Charles held tightly under his arm. In the litter of broken glass at their feet they picked up this crude pocket-worn note that appeared to have been printed on a child's toy printing...
...were a rarity, residents of the six New England States began observing on their highways an odd vehicle, no trailer but a house car, its sides as neatly clapboarded as a village church. It was a church, complete with folding pulpit and collapsible organ, built by a New Hampshire toy manufacturer for a Baptist minister named Herbert R. Whitelock. With his motherly wife Edith Sisson Whitelock, this man of God had spent many a summer preaching in parks, factories, on street corners and village greens...