Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christmas trees were sparse in London (those with a diameter of more than 2¼ inches rated as timber and required a special license from the timber control authorities), and it took considerable conniving to lure a plum pudding out of the grocer, but the children's toy supply had improved. For English members of the bureau like June Rose, the season offered an additional prospect: "The whole family is finally demobilized, and we'll sit around the fire together in civilian clothes for the first time since...
...masked men, in white gloves and spats, gestured grotesquely around a green baize table. To the impious tango rhythms of two pianos in the pit, the diplomats on stage wrangled and jumped on the table, their arguments increasing in fury until one of the peacemakers fired a toy pistol. That brought war-in which death was represented by a goose-stepping skeleton-into the scene. When all who accompanied Death-soldiers in battle and women at home-were dead, the false-faced peacemakers gathered again at their green table and waved their arms and fought, as foolishly as before...
...children, whose ages range from 6 to 14, will be guests of PBH at a two-hour Christmas Party session of cake, ice cream, candy and entertainment. And each will go home with a new toy or game and a new piece of clothing to add to his winter wardrobe...
After these pleasures, they walked out into the brooding night fog. Quietly, the mine people turned up their collars and started for home-past the fuzzy street lamps, past Harchar's saloon, past the tinseled toy window at Duval's hardware store. In two hours the strike became official...
Lionel, back at its old stand as the world's No. 1 toy trainmaker after four wartime years spent turning out $19 million worth of navigational instruments, hoped to do a $10,000,000 business this year. To do it, Lionel wanted a million catalogues to tell U.S. small fry about its wondrous new models that smoke and whistle while they work by electronics. But no job printer was able to handle the order...