Word: toye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychopathic personality - and hence perhaps even legally insane. One Manhattan psychiatrist claims that this is shown by Lonergan's "financial promiscuity, sexual promiscuity, emotional shallowness." Typical example of his emotional shallowness : after his wife's death Lonergan went back to the apartment to leave a toy elephant for his son. He was unstable, seldom held a job for long. One of his few recorded jobs was chair pushing at the New York World's Fair. Example of his psychopathic unscrupulousness: his marriage to Heiress (about $6,000,000) Patricia Burton, especially if the rumor about Lonergan...
Standing Room Only (Paramount) warms over the hectic humors of war-crowded Washington. Junior Executive Lee Stevens (Fred MacMurray) comes to Washington to wangle, from New Deal Bigwig Glen Ritchie, a contract to convert a languishing toy factory into an ordnance plant. With him comes fleshly, flashy, proletarian Jane Rogers (Paulette Goddard), who has flirted her way out of the firm's toy donkey department into a secretaryship. First night in Washington the roomless pair huddle miserably under the horse-belly of a Civil War monument...
Mickey Walker, the "Toy Bulldog," used to be famed for the wicked left hook that made him middleweight and welterweight king of the '20s. Now he has shifted hands, changed to a gaudy right. The old master has become an artist, a painter of genuine oil paintings...
...Ickes' Foreign Operations Committee avers that private enterprise is the better means to insure U.S. participation in world oil because "private enterprise can operate with a minimum of political complications." Mr. Ickes maintains just as stoutly that no foreign nation would dare to toy with a U.S. Government interest, as it might (and has in Mexico) with privately owned corporations...
...Christmas. He spent much of his time in his garden workshop. He made toy battleships and airplanes, repaired Joyce's doll house. Otherwise, toys being so scarce and costly, the children might have had no new ones for Christmas. He visited the school to see how his kids were making out; the teacher made him tell an assembly about "life in the desert." On his last night the family had a feast of roast lamb, boiled potatoes, cabbage, Queen's pudding-a spongy affair with...