Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FARTHING Lousana, Alberta The U. S. levies tariffs on: 1) books and periodicals printed abroad by lithographic process (fashion periodicals, 8? per lb.); 2) books less than 20 years old in English by foreign authors (15%) or by U. S. authors (25%); 3) children's books (15%), "toy" books (70%). But bibles, books for public libraries or in foreign languages are duty free, no important foreign periodicals are affected...
...Julius Curtius, Germany's Foreign Minister, whispered news into his ear: Frau Barbara von Haeften, Minister Curtius' daughter, had just borne a son in Berlin, Foreign Minister Curtius' first grandson. As a diplomat should. Statesman Stimson remembered this fact when, later, he reached Berlin. At a toy store he selected and sent to small Grandson Jan von Haeften a large sailboat. Last week a letter from Berlin reached Statesman Stimson in Washington...
...championships, who has unofficially surpassed the world's record for 100 yd. (9.5 sec.), who has not been beaten in four major meets this year; Patrick J. McDonald. 52-year-old, 350-lb. Manhattan policeman who handles a 35-lb. weight as though it were a toy balloon; Percy Beard, a 23-year-old instructor in engineering at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, whose long skinny legs are well suited to the high hurdles; Leo Lermond, New York Athletic Club miler, who got off to practice on the way to Lincoln every time the train stopped; Wilson Charles, Oneida Indian decathlon...
Presuming that by describing his Paris Herald as unprofitable, very costly, a rich man's toy, he would keep out competitors, Bennett ever emphasized his disbursements, never revealed his takings...
...Musical Toy Stage. Ray Lyman Wilbur, U. S. Secretary of the Interior who appointed a committee a year ago to investigate education by radio, disagreed with B. B. C.'s Director Reith. He said radio has "brought about ways in which the public can be entertained and also instructed which probably never would have evolved from the heads of the very best-intentioned government officials. . . . Time will de-jazz the radio and make it more literate and substantial. The musical toy stage of the radio has about passed...