Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every trick, on to every wile, physically all bounce, mentally all barbed wire. Hirsch's Scapin seems even more resourceful than Molière's, and on a stage full of antique, chattering magpies and grinning dolls and grimacing puppets, he is a kind of unpredictable mechanical toy with, at moments, shock value as well as spin...
...chosen as the U.S.'s best dog last week was a tiny, 9½in. bit of ebony fluff that would make any kitten feel like a tiger. The winner at the Westminster Kennel Club show at Madison Square Garden: Ch. Cappoquin Little Sister, a toy poodle who rode triumphantly away from the rubber-sheeted arena in her own silver-plated trophy bowl...
...Sister was stacked up against 2,547 other no-pants dogs at the Westminster. Awaiting her turn, she sat patiently in a tiny cell in the Garden basement. In the ring, she coolly outperformed 70 members of her own breed and a batch of other dogs classed in the "toy group'': Chihuahuas, affenpinschers. Mal tese, Italian greyhounds, griffons...
...After frequent consultations with his wristwatch. as if timing his decisions to television, Judge Joseph E. Redden, himself a terrier fancier, pointed to Sister. Said Redden: "It resolved itself into a choice of the two poodles. There was remarkably little difference in their breed characteristics. In my opinion, the toy was better in the head, and that was the deciding factor...
...Noun" has a lovely beginning: The cold brussels sprout rolled off the page of the book (by Faulkner) I was reading and laying inert and defunctive in my lap. Turning my head with a leisure at least three-fourths impotent rage, I saw him or rather the reverse, the toy the fat insolent flet and then above that the bland face beneath the shock of hair like tangible...