Word: toye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, about the only concrete fact that Bolles has to toy with is that out of last year's once beaten eight, Captain Fluff Stevens, Walt Kernan, Johnny Richards, and coxswain George Shortlege are missing. Returning lettermen include this year's captain, Shuff Gray, now engaged in hockey activities, Bruce Pirnie, Sam Goddard, Dick Fowler, and stroke Jack Wilson. In addition to these veterans there is a complete Jayvee boatload returning from last year. Also the 1943 shell, which left ten lengths of open water between it and the Elis returns almost intact...
...Four-and five-year-olds bit their bread into the shape of guns and played war at table, started bombing games whenever they got their hands on toy boats or planes, invariably became shrill and tense when they played at war. One child, during a game with blocks, proposed: "Let's give this lumber to the Germans so they won't bomb us." Another, defying his mother, exclaimed: "I am Hitler...
...hand to referee a cardful of amateur fights in Philadelphia was as rough a roster as ever climbed into a ring. In honor of the occasion they squared off for a few photographic passes : double-chinned Mickey Walker, looking very little like the "Toy Bulldog" terror of the '20s; Politicuffing Restaurateur Jack Dempsey (lightly supporting Lou Salica, current bantam champ); leering Jimmy Braddock, erstwhile rags-to-riches Heavyweight Champion (with Tommy Forte, Salica's hottest rival, on his shoulders); and skinny, Texas-drawling Lew Jenkins, who can lick all lightweights...
Guatemala-born Merida, who for '14 years had painted nothing but abstractions inspired by French modernists during his visit to Europe, surprised Manhattan visitors to the Buchholz Gallery by a complete change of style. His perspectiveless, daguerreotypical canvases, brightly colored and surrealistically childlike, depicted toy hons and paper-doll-like human figures sedately waving the stumps of amputated arms. Critics were not sure that Painter Merida's new style was any improvement over the old, but found his ashy reds, yellows and blues loudly decorative...
...Siboney. Miss Helen Cederlind, a pretty Norwegian, who was going to the U. S. to marry a U. S. Army engineer, promised to keep an eye on him. Everybody kept an eye on him. A Frenchman played a game with Axel: he could make one of Axel's toys disappear, and tell Axel, "Whistle for it." Then Axel's toy would miraculously reappear from under the Frenchman's coat. The game broke up when Axel grabbed the Frenchman's hat and hurled it overboard, shrieking: "Whistle...