Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florian." Thus spoke honest burghers in London printshops on Saturday nights. They laid down their pennies, took home boots, sword, armor, cut them from their cards, pasted them on the effigies of contemporary actors. They took pains. Often the scenes constructed in the three-sided rooms of the toy theatres were works of subtle art. Artists afterwards famed sometimes got bread by engraving the penny cards, the tuppeny cards-Blake, Flaxman, Cruikshank. Thousands worked at the making of the theatres; now only one man is left who gets his living so-one B. Pollock of London; he is the last...
...hero with the indispensable automatic. The gun, together with an unemptied waste basket, remains conspicuously placed in the office of a busy business man for twenty four hours; of course nobody disturbs it because on the following day the business man, in the course of melodramatic events, must toy with the suicide idea. For this an automatic is indispensilge; we know, because we have tried it many times...
Nevertheless, one deep shadow still lies across the U. S. toy industry?the fear of German competition. Last summer, many other industries were worried for the same cause; but, one by one, they have recovered from their fears. The steel industry now has little concern about an invasion of U. S. markets by German products. But the toy industry is in a quite different position. Before the War, when our markets were wide open to the products of German toymakers, the U. S. toy industry was small. During the War years, with German competition cut off, it grew heavily...
...however, the wheel has turned again. U. S. capital is becoming interested in the Sonneberg district of Germany with the view to rehabilitating its famous toy industries. The move will not affect this Christmas buying; but, by another Christmas, as Government trade experts point out, our toy markets may be flooded with cheaper toys from abroad...
...deep shadow that lies across the U. S. toy industry...