Word: toye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the tender was the Limited's baggage car. Six sleepers, the diner and a day coach of the 15-car train were jerked off the track, rolled helter-skelter in grinding wreckage. Of 208 passengers, few escaped some injury. Thirty died, one of them P. O. Becker, toy train maker of Moline, Ill. Among the uninjured: Sports Broadcaster Bill Stern; a score or more Chinese in the custody of a U. S. marshal. Dead was veteran Engineer Earl, after 41 years' service. On him the New York Central line placed the blame, said the speed tape...
...rare occasions, he is taken unannounced into the public world. In the hope that he had inherited his father's passionate interest in "biology," he was taken to Uyeno Park Zoo one day last autumn. There he observed that the hippopotamus, unlike his toy hippo at home, was supplied with a tail; also (there being no one with the audacity to hinder his demi-divine will) he fed the sheep to satiety on small pieces of paper...
...that has long since practically disappeared from public knowledge was brought into the light by Sullivan last Friday when he held up the Student Union production of "Waiting for Lefty" on the grounds that it was communistic propaganda. Since then, proud of his new toy, Sullivan decided that the Hasty Pudding show, never before played under a permit, could stand being stopped for its alleged indecency...
...another piano, which she played in the evenings. On the piano at the neighbor hood Republican club, one of her favorite resorts, she sometimes played and sang opera arias. She could never pass a piano by. At Moscowitz's stationery store one day, she had a toy piano taken from the window, played until they made her stop.Occasionally, she played for the Democrats at their club. But she preferred the Republicans...
Christmas week in New Orleans, Friends Fisher & Levi got tight on Ramos gin fizzes (a drink that was new to them), pelted a policeman with a toy elephant, placated Mrs. Fisher with an armful of knickknacks. On the Gulf, after a day and a half of freezing storm, Pilot Levi headed for Mobile Bay, beached the boat. Cook Galloway leaped ashore. "I'm never going back on that boat again," he announced, and trudged off toward Mobile. Next day the Fishers and Bushman headed back...