Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dealers in everything from caviar to coke foregathered at Leipzig during the week for that city's 700th annual fair. From the U. S. alone came 1,500 buyers. At Leipzig they mingled with oleaginous Armenian lace vendors, stalwart Norwegian goat cheese merchants, shrewd Jugoslavian toy whittlers. When the week of chop, swop and barter closed, over 50% more business had been done than in the previous record year...
...Majesty passed a morning last week in superintending the design of a nursery and a cupboard. The "nursery"-a suite of rooms equipped with every appliance for infant culture-will be built to adjoin Her Majesty's own apartments in Buckingham Palace. The cupboard, an ingenious toy stable, will be copied, with a few improvements, after that which houses the toys of Princess Mary's two infant sons, at Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire. "Does Her Majesty expect an infant?" queried humble newsgatherers. "Her Majesty," retorted lofty courtiers, "will entertain at Buckingham Palace from January to June her granddaughter, (TIME...
...over all Manchuria. The luxury of his robber-baron court is set off in opulent relief by the stark barbaric cruelty of his oppressive military régime. While the pen of Wu traces not seldom such poems as are expected from a Chinese gentleman, Chang scorns a lighter toy than his automatic pistol. He has been known to remark to a passing stranger: "Your face seems not unfamiliar. But I thought I ordered you beheaded last year...
Such an optimistic view would indeed be surprising did it not come from foreign observers who are endeavoring to establish better conditions in their own country. Something of the old human tendency to desire the other child's toy may be discerned as an explanation. But even dissenting such motives two Britons would hardly have made an extremely favorable report of American manufacturing conditions without some valid grounds...
...Women's Social and Political Union. Estelle is perhaps the most violent and versatile of the three. She edits The Workers' Dreadnought and Germinal. She has "hunger struck" 14 times, and always had to be forcibly fed. She has founded: 1) Clinics, cost-price restaurants and co-operative toy-factories for War veterans; 2) Societies to expose Fascismo, give information about Russia, and promote feminine culture...