Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many A Slip adopts it, upon the advice of her mother, to provoke just the opposite effect?a proposal of marriage from a cynical and recalcitrant swain. Once she gets him, she learns that babies do not always come with husbands and is highly embarrassed by the arrival of toy trains, mechanical bunnies, other anticipatory gewgaws. And when her husband learns the truth he makes it very clear that he objects to such fetal fooling. But, child or no child, she manages to keep...
Discussing the Harvard system of allotting tickets, which gives each class good seats at one of the season's major games, Captain Jones said, "It is a very good idea with which to toy around. But our problem is complicated by the fact that generals expect better seats than lieutenants...
Pigmies. Black manikins parading pompously in a Pharaoh's circus, a Roman lady's ebony toy boy, a living statuette of jet in a Chinese garden-vestiges of their pigmy race peered from New Guinea bushes when Smithsonian's Matthew Williams Stirling flew to the island's mountain reaches. The little men overcame their suspicions of the big explorer. They offered him their bananas, sugar cane and taro, cultivated and prepared with the only three tools they knew of-an axe, a flat, curved knife, a chisel, all made of stone. They made him fire...