Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illustration of Roosevelt I's compassion was cartooned by Clifford K. Berryman of the Washington Post, who sketched the cub as a cuddly, koala-like animal, thus created the "Teddy bear'' which became T. R.'s totem until the Bull Moose movement of 1912. First toy Teddy bears were made in Germany by famed stuffed Toymaker Margarete Steiff, who is believed not to have copied the koala...
...consolation prize. Before Governor Fitzgerald left office he could bestow an honor and an honorarium on some loyal Republican by appointing him to fill out Senator Couzens' unfinished term. This week Mr. Fitzgerald made his choice. Said he: "The high office of United States Senator is nothing to toy with as a means of bestowing an honor that calls for no work and no responsibility...
...Device for Nominating a Candidate for High Office places a "fresh air fiend" next door to the candidate. When the windows are opened, the fresh air addict's pet owl catches cold and sneezes into a toy bugle which summons a company of National Guardsmen who think War is declared and, in their haste, upset a milkman and break his bottles, spilling milk which attracts hundreds of cats, whose howling wakes up the neighbors, whose own angry yells and howls the candidate mistakes for the voices of his constituents calling on him to save the country. The candidate thereupon...
Unfortunately the War Department is deeply immersed in hidebound tradition and takes far too long to use the results of modern inventions and apply them to practical use for the future. The next war will be totally unlike the last. Small field guns, toy cannons and pistol markmanship will be utterly useless, and the teaching of these subjects occupies more time in a valuable college curriculum than the average student ought to spend...
...Green Table remains the best of the Jooss ballets, wears well as a masterpiece. In it ten of the dancers mime as diplomats, first suave, later pompous, finally furious. With foolish toy pistols they start the war through which Death stalks, imperiously destroying soldiers and their womenfolk, pecking fatally at a cocky little profiteer, sparing only the diplomats, inscrutably masked, back at the green table again making more trouble...