Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mary Astor promised in future to support her family "in comfort but not extravagance." Wharf Angel (Paramount). It is a cinema tradition that the medium for introducing a new star should be a picture in which she performs as a prostitute with more principles than profits. In Wharf Angel Toy (Dorothy Dell) is a San Francisco bad girl, rehabilitated by her pure love for Como (Preston Foster). He is a soap box socialist hounded by the police for a murder he did not commit. Turk (Victor McLaglen), also in love with Toy, helps Como escape. This leads to two climactic...
...that that defunct publication is stirring within its whited sepulchre. With what rosy promises they beguiled the eager freshmen into the wolf-tended folds of their subscribers; with what lurid phrases they depicted the Alpine peaks of journalism which they were about to scale! Tenacious memoirs will recollect that toy booklet which appeared last fall, so scholarly in its denatured, so anxiously emulous of its elder brethren. A column of humor painted the Lampoon's lily an article on Harvard indifference fairly stole Mother Advocate's bustle, and in a soft, artistic way, other pundits refined the dross from...
...shown at his wedding, his friends crying Mazeltov ("Good luck"). A Frenchman picks up a pretty girl, takes her to a shooting gallery. A Briton awaits the birth of his son. A Negro tap-dances in a Paris music hall. A German cabinetmaker watches his son play with a toy cannon. This cannon fades into a real one and War begins. After a battle the Jew, the Frenchman, the Briton, the Negro and the German find refuge, one by one, in an abandoned dugout between the lines. They make friends, lose their race-consciousness. After the dugout is barraged from...
...longer bear them. David Lynn, Capitol architect, was assigned to drive them off. He rigged a series of automobile horns around the building, blew them all periodically by pressing a button. When he pressed, the starlings took flight. When he stopped they alighted. Then he sent men with toy balloons on long strings to frighten the starlings from the ledges. The starlings cheeped derisively. In despair he wrote the Department of Agriculture.* Last week the Department suggested that the only remedy might be to use deadly hydrocyanic acid gas-a ticklish job necessitating careful preparations lest Congressmen and bystanders fall...
Probably the boldest procedure which Dr. Matas devised is the Matas Operation. Under some conditions an artery will blow up like a toy balloon. Its walls grow paper thin. This is an aneurism which any rough usage or surgery is apt to burst. Dr. Matas conceived the plan of opening the blood filled sacs, stitching the walls together like a seamstress taking in a pleat, and leaving the artery with a normal sized bore...