Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Table. One day a troubled woman had an audience with Réal, who sat at the round table with his father, munching candy and playing with a plastic toy automobile. "Mon petit Réal," the woman pleaded, "my kidneys make me very sore at night. What shall I do?" "Big old fool," snapped Réal, "I am fed up. You have a cancer." He ran from the room shouting to his father: "We are going to have 700 cars Sunday. Money will come in, eh, Papa?" Papa pulled the boy back into the room...
...Lampoon is a legend, based partly on tremendous physical stunts but mostly on the work of a great many talented men who considered their magazine something more than a toy to be used for completely private amusement...
Suzuki, who hates right-wing extremists as well as Communists, has learned fast what many people never realize about the Communists. Says he: "The Communists are like small children breaking a toy, but unlike the children, they are not innocent; their tactics are those of wartime; they are warlike criminals. They are resolved to get power no matter by what means, and I am just as resolved to check them. In Japan today, the general tendency is that a person must be kicked front behind before he moves forward. Since I move forward without any pushing, I am accused...
Filmed on German locations, Male War Bride uses well-photographed landscapes as backdrops for its pratfalls and manages somehow to turn occupied Germany into a comic-opera set, peopled by quaint peasants and toy soldiers. With no dialogue worthy of deft Comedian Grant, it makes its major bid for comedy by turning him into a female impersonator...
Retailers have also plugged cowboy stuff to the hilt. As one said: "Cowboy things used to be considered just toys. But we've been smart enough to take them out of the toy class and make many of the items necessities for many kids. Now they wear blue jeans and Levi's to school, even in New York." Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus has set up a special cowboy section; Philadelphia's Lit Brothers has a "Western Trading Post." And retailers have egged on manufacturers to add new "cowboy" items. The latest item on the list...