Word: toye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curious new chemical last week achieved something of a vogue as a social toy in Manhattan. Gadget-loving hosts introduced it at family gatherings; the Manhattan press ran feature stories; the New Yorker took notice. This entertaining material is a kind of putty which can be pulled and kneaded like taffy but has a surprising, unputty-like property-when rolled into a ball and dropped on a hard surface, it bounces...
Egypt's Tutankhamen collected walking sticks; Hermann Wilhelm Göring collects stag antlers. You can never tell what a collector is going to collect or why. A woman in Richmond avidly collects toy elephants- for the excellent reason that her name is Mrs. L. E. Fant. The ferocious Ferrante, King of Naples, was fond of collecting his political enemies, whom he had executed, stuffed and mounted, and kept tastefully arrayed in a special room in his palace...
...admired each present-beginning with the red toy automobile, the gift of William Jeffers, president of Father's railroad. But in all the 250-odd gifts and the bushel baskets of letters, and telegrams, nothing was so satisfactory-not even the fuzzy kangaroo-as the presents from his parents, which Nubbins had particularly asked for: the wooden freight train, the toy jeep, the candy-filled locomotive. "It was a Christmas," said his father, "that little boys dream...
...Hoffman closets in the four-room frame house overflowed with packages; they came from Miami, from Seattle, from all over: a xylophone, a miniature church with chimes, a blue music box, a toy army camp. The halls were filled with hand-carved wooden gifts flown from wounded servicemen at Lowry Field, Colo., a wheelbarrow, a tommygun, a family of walking ducks. There was a black cocker spaniel from one of Father Hoffman's fellow workers at the Union Pacific Railroad, and a tree-size fir branch from the Cheyenne Park Department...
Steaming Stanley. At 19, slim, black-haired Stanley Hiller is a veteran inventor. An inventor's son (his father flew a plane of his own design in 1911), Stanley began to tinker with tools at five. At ten he built a toy car which he drove around the streets of Berkeley, Calif.; at twelve he invented a miniature racing auto 19 inches long. Powered by a gas engine and guided by a cable, it sped around a circular course at 107 m.p.h. At 17, as head of his own company, Hiller Industries, Inc., Stanley was running...