Word: toye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the deck of a ship entering the harbor, Willemstadt in Curaçao looks like a toy Dutch town, its well-scrubbed houses bright in the vivid tropic sunlight. To 79 men, women and children hanging over the rails of the Spanish liner Cabo de Hornos last week, Curaçao seemed very beautiful. It looked like heaven to them, for they had been on a long voyage through hell...
...such political jugglery. Though the election was a foregone conclusion, several minority candidates campaigned just for the fun of it. The best show was put on by gaudy, athletic Hilario Camino Moncado. Colorful Candidate Moncado, Philippine equivalent of Texas' Pappy O'Daniel, is married to pretty Diana Toy, onetime Hollywood bit player who is now Manila's favorite radio singer. He took his wife with him to rallies, looked on with a smile as she led his fervent followers in The Moncado March...
...filibustered. No Senator had deliberately delayed the debate. The talk had been good, the argument largely honest and toward the point. There had been a minimum of fustian, of rabble-rousing, only one moment of phony melodrama-when Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler had displayed British-made toy lead soldiers, had asked the little Redcoats directly: "What are you doing here? What are you doing here?" (The toy soldiers kept a strict military silence...
After 20 years in disgrace, this Christmas the toy soldier is marching home in triumph. On display at the annual Manhattan exhibition of the Toy Manufacturers' Association were tanks, airplanes, antiaircraft guns, battle cruisers, submarines -a11 reproductions of Army & Navy equipment, accurate down to the insignia...
...toy set inspired by Lieut. General Lear has a group of Red Cross nurses standing beside soldiers who roll their eyes and whistle. Other toys of the times...