Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newest rage in made-in-France toys is Massacre! and Parisians have also been buying carload shipments of a made-in-Germany toy called Les Moineaux Avares or "The Greedy Sparrows...
...infelicitous delivery of the finale, which she played awkwardly, timidly, and insecurely. . . . Miss Kerr's pretty and facile playing was swamped in the tides of Rachmaninoff's grandiloquence." Pitts Sanborn wrote in the Telegram of the Brahms as "nothing for a young miss in flounces to toy with...
...basic; but grizzled Louis Lumière has long since ceased to care. Interviewed last week in Paris he barely condescended to observe: "My. brother Auguste and I looked upon our invention as a novelty, capable of offering distraction for a few moments only. . . . The Americans have taken a toy and made it into a trade. . . . Primarily I am a chemist. I have little or no time to go to the cinema. ... I do not think I have ever seen or heard before of the women you call 'Clara Bow' and 'Lillian Gish.' ... I myself turned...
...Hauser, 17, stumbling alone into Nürnberg, stimulated general curiosity because he could neither walk nor talk better than a child of two. He could remember that he had always lived in darkness (presumably a cell), slept on straw, eaten only bread and water, played pathetically with a toy horse. This data formed the basis of a famous criminologist's charge that Caspar, a legitimate prince, had been criminally secreted and finally cast out by the House of Baden, lest he foil a court intrigue by claiming his rightful heritage. Controversy raged as to the truth...
...survival of the fittest is listed by Emil Ludwig as one of seven reasons still advanced in favor of war, but all seven he devastates with withering, vigorous logic. Then wistfully he places a little hope in peace conferences, a great deal more in the give-your-child-no-toy-soldiers brand of education...