Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tiny Pierrot of Hartlebury, best Pekingese (TIME, Jan. 30) and best toy dog, got swooping dabs from his owner's hairbrush as he bounced along. Close on his heels, in ridiculous contrast, stalked huge, brindled Great Dane Gunar von Hollergarten, best working dog. Then came liver & white Norman of Hamsey, an English Springer Spaniel who had barely beaten out famed old English Setter Blue Dan of Happy Valley for best gun dog. The ribs and muscles of snow-white Greyhound Boveway Beau Brummel, best hound, looked like delicately chiseled marble. His kinky jet hair and the crimson ribbon...
...program: Haytden's Toy Symphony Radcliffe Orchestra Holst's St. Paul Suite Combined Orchestras Hayden's Second Symphony First Movement Pierian Sodality Beethoven's Concerto in D Major Violin Solo by Priscilla Thierry Grieg's Herzwunden Der Fruhling Combined Orchestras Rimsky-Korsakov's Danse des Bouffons Pierian Sodality
Still largely a pet of the rich, the Pekingese is regarded by most nonowners as a snobbish, fragile toy. But its fanciers claim for it intelligence, warmheartedness, loyalty and all the courage of that far-off, amorous lion...
...Washington, the Prohibition Bureau gave 100 Ib. of lead pipe confiscated from illicit distilleries to be cast into toy soldiers for poor children...
...toy automobile belonging to Dickie Moore can be identified as a death car the instant it appears on the floor of Metropolitan Garage. This and other paraphernalia in The Devil Is Driving-an airshaft into which a sedan topples, a narrow two-way ramp full of blind corners-make it a peculiarly stagey exposé. The garage is an interesting and elaborate caution to curious motorists. In addition to its ramps and airshafts, it contains a mechanic stupider than most real ones (Guinn Williams), a speakeasy with onyx bar, a suite of offices in which a racketeer (Alan Dinehart) operates...