Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asking for a big rubber ball in which they proposed to sail to Europe with no motive power or steering device other than the wind. They planned to take food and water for three months. They said they had been watching how Herzog's small daughter's toy balloon floated at the beach. Two concerns were interested...
...meets eccentric Faulkner, gains mental health which he loses by returning to New York and encountering Frances, herself jilted and now hunting him. Faulkner appears, frightens off Frances with threat of scandal, kidnaps Harvey to his yacht where is foregathered a group of magnates playing furiously with toy trains. Harvey's ego diminishes, and much clean fun with Margot ensues, interrupted by a visit from Frances and some friends on a small cruiser. Frances & friends drink with such success that Frances, disillusioned as to Harvey's wealth and roundly repudiating him, falls overboard, has to be rescued...
Centre of the disturbance and scene of the greatest loss of life were the mountain villages of Avellino, Villanova-Albanese, Melfi, in the Apennines back of Naples. Here thousands were mangled, buried alive in the debris of stone houses that crumpled and knocked each other down like rows of toy soldiers. Though Bari on the Adriatic was shaken by severe tremors and many houses damaged, none was killed, none injured. Fascist engineers were proud, for modern Bari is their handiwork. They have converted a small sleepy fishing village into a great modern port (rival of Brindisi), laid out broad avenues...
...herself popular, by the U. S. political trick of baby-kissing and by getting herself adopted into the tribe. She stayed ten months. Her only traveling companion was a fox terrier, her only equipment a revolver, a first-aid kit, 25 Ibs. of staple groceries, gifts of tobacco, tinsel, toy balloons, with which she had small difficulty in winning her way among New Irelanders...
Also opened with the terminal will be the first Harvey restaurant east of Chicago. Harvey, Inc., companion concern to the Fred Harvey restaurants and hotels that flourish mightily throughout the West, will be represented further in the terminal by a candy shop, men's shop, women's shop, toy shop, lunch room, tea rooms, barber shop, book store, mammoth drug store...