Word: toye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voices faded away just as if someone had turned off a radio, and all Vag could hear was the toy music of the distant phonograph, and the constant purring of the refrigerator. Then Vag remembered what it was he had forgotten to do. He had forgotten to sign for the beer. The devil with it. This one would be on the house. For the first time in two years Vag felt like a guest, and he knew that his host had the most wonderful house in the world, even if it did run on assessments...
When death, as it must to all dogs, came to William Randolph Hearst's toy dachshund Helen, the aged publisher last week wrote an elegy...
...Salsette's remarks about U.S. food & drink are courteous but not startlingly novel; he has some very nice things to say, however, for the complicated, charming toy, his kitchenette, and he manages to make the luxuries of a U.S. bathroom, for the first time, worthy of literature...
...costly toy of television, into which NBC and CBS have sunk millions, began to prove itself useful last week. With the delighted cooperation of the New York City Police Department, to which civilian defense has been one long headache, NBC's television experts took up the task of teaching urban air-raid wardens how to do their...
...went back to London, where by the age of seven he had built up an army of nearly 1 ,000 toy soldiers. He went to Harrow, where he once by mistake pushed a star athlete into the swimming pool, displayed typical Churchill tact in his apology. "I am very sorry," he said, "I mistook you for a Fourth Form boy. You are so small. My father, who is a great man, is also small...