Word: toye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...segment of the populace which for some reason is titillated by horror; the greater the horror, the greater its titillation. Charles Addams is its deity. It chuckles weekly at his pictures of trains bearing down on people strapped to the rails, of teddy bears lashed to the fenders of toy cars, of squat little men sharpening the spikes of their iron fences...
...York City's American Federation of Musicians' Local 802 had long been un decided about the ukulele. The question: Is it 1) a non-professional musical toy or 2) a professional musical instrument? Union banjo and guitar players, who have been complaining of losing jobs to non-union "uke" players, plunked for No. 2. Last week, after pondering the complaints and listening to a demonstration uke performance of Liszt's Liebestraum which struck them as professionally impressive, the executive board of Local 802 made its decision. Henceforth, all practitioners of the uke in 802's jurisdiction...
Even when he talks art, Peirce succeeds in doing it simply, without the troubled air of most artists. "It's damned hard to judge what kind of a painter you are," he says. "For me painting is a sort of toy shop-something to play with...
...make these transformations, Tripp employs the simplest form of theater. Aided only by his wife, Ruth Enders, and two other permanent cast members, he has staged convincing battles between armies of Crusaders and Saracens, as well as AH Baba's capture of the Forty Thieves. Out of some toy boats floating in a washtub he created the Spanish Armada beating its way up the English Channel...
...South African government ordered 100 steam locomotives from Krupp of Essen, who offered a lower bid and swifter delivery than any one of a score of U.S., British and other competing firms. Rosenthal china and Leica cameras are once again in the world's markets. A British toy manufacturer complained that the Germans are undercutting his prices on teddy bears and white rabbits in Cyprus, offering stiff competition in Canada and Africa...