Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death of the whole Universe. The Universe is being done to death, slowly but implacably, by the Second Law of Thermodynamics: The sum total of energy in Nature is continually passing from a higher degree of organization to a lower. A speeding train, a hot coffee pot, an inflated toy balloon represent organized energy; when the train stops, when the pot grows cold and the balloon is deflated, energy is scattered, dissipated, disorganized. Small reorganizations of energy are possible but always at the expense of a little greater disorganization. In such wise the total energy must go on being shuffled...
...Toronto the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire hired Ming-Toy, a dancer formerly at London's Kit Kat Club, for their annual ball last week, forbade her at the last moment to dance in her usual costume, silver paint. Undaunted Ming-Toy did a sinuous, undulating fan dance before the Imperial Daughters of the British Empire, then, at the last moment, showed what she thinks of them by raising her fans and standing starkly revealed in red underdrawers...
Cried President Wallace Morgan, famed illustrator: "Photography in illustration is a new toy for both the public and the editors, whose disastrous results we are all feeling...
BRAVE MR. BUCKINGHAM - Dorothy Kunhardt - Harcourt, Brace ($1). A toy Indian made of Nugg could always say, in spite of calamities, "THAT DIDN'T HURT." Nonsense with a moral, for children (and adults) by the author of Junket Is Nice...
...bamboo poles which cost $1.25 each and sold them for $25 each. After this venture he went into the magic business, manufacturing sets of card tricks, false hats for jugglers and accessories for vaudeville magicians. Presently A. C. Gilbert thought up the idea of a child's construction toy which he called Erector; his company now sells 350,000 sets a year. At Yale, where he is on the Board of Athletic Control, A. C. Gilbert still has time to see that the vaulters get the best possible coaching and equipment. His New Haven home, in addition...