Word: toye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moves, the Legion well do its country a service by thinking its problems through to the end and stating its position clearly enough for all to grasp. Its influence is great, but no greater than its responsibility. Let the thousands of delegates shake staid old Boston like a toy rattle, led them tic up traffic in knots the Boy Scouts never heard of, but still the eyes of the nation will watch intently for the outcome of this convention...
...experts, the favorites were Zalmon Simmons' My Sin, winner last year with an average speed of 66 m.p.h., and Herbert Mendelson's brand-new Notre Dame, successor to the original Notre Dame that won the 1937 race. Sentimentalists hoped that Gar Wood Jr., driving his little Tinker Toy (a converted 18-ft. runabout with which he was making his debut in big-time inboard racing), might follow in the wake of his famed father, four-time Gold Cup winner...
...both sentimentalists and experts were disappointed. Not one of the six starters completed the 90 miles. My Sin, Notre Dame and Tinker Toy broke down in the first heat. In the second heat, Notre Dame was unfit to start, Tinker Toy dropped out in the first lap, My Sin in the third. In the last 30 miles, Notre Dame finally got going, roared around at 66 m.p.h.-but it was too late. The cup went to the winner of the first two heats, Sidney Allen's Hotsy Totsy...
...easy friendliness he responded to the welcome, stopping often to chat and joke with the villagers and soldiers. Good-humoredly he posed for cameramen, tinkering with a U. S.-made tommy gun (see cut), chewing on a big cigar. Playfully he watched a brash eleven-year-old click his toy pistol at him, laughed...
Brother Orchid (Warner). The making of movies is ringed about by taboos. But no commercial taboo is quite so terrifying as religious touchiness. Nevertheless, Hollywood has never been able to master an occasional whim to toy with the dangerous topic of religion. Brother Orchid is such a toying. It celebrates the spiritual regeneration of Edward G. Robinson (a gangster) by monastic life...