Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Races the second day of the meet were for toy models, light commercial craft, large-capacity craft and light planes guided by civilians...
...then, occasionally, some Cabinet officer, standing on the Western shore, will rattle his sabre like a new toy recently given him. Extinguishment is placed upon him; and silence reigns supreme once more. It all reminds me of nothing so much as the words of Tennyson...
...could no longer endure the mistreatment of her stepmother, Jennie said, and so she took $1.63 from her toy bank and was appointed Secretary of the Transit Commission after an acrimonious debate on the part that women will play in the national election. Conservative estimates placed the damage at $10,000. At the hospital the victim said his attention had been called to the assault shortly after the gangster had shot him down...
...when Harry J. Luce, President of Maillard, Inc., (euphemism for a restaurant at which the privileged few can toy with a few dainties at an an exclusive price) "discovered Chicago" and forthwith leased 20,000 square feet of floor space in the Straus Building, the Chicago Tribune, which as everyone knows is the "world's greatest newspaper," splurged for a whole column...
...Wembley Exhibit, English craftsmanship is again a British glory -beauty and care of execution in the applied arts compensating for the noticeable lack of imagination and emotional power in the so-called fine arts. The Queen's Doll House (TIME, Oct. 29) is a huge and delicious toy, perfect to the last minute detail. The art of bookmaking touches the highwater mark in the artistic display, perfect in taste and in texture. Decorated interiors, varying in merit, may be observed in six rooms, one of 1750 with Reynolds and Gainsborough portraits, a Handel duet on the table...