Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like glass, the gamest CRIMSON nine of them all fought back from certain defeat today under a lemon yellow sun, to win an embattled 23-2 decision from a gloriously fighting Lampoon team, stirred to unrivalled heights by the pre-game banning of their great little leader, Lionel (the Toy) Train...
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 28 (APE) Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of the Supreme Court tonight doclared Lionel "The Toy" Train, ace Lampoon manager-moundsman, unconstitutional, thereby barring him from today's renewal for the annual Crime-Lampoon titanic...
...rumors that Lampoon members had turned in the false alarm, Lionel ("The Toy") Train '50, Lampoon president would only say, "Well, if it had to be any building, I'm glad it was the CRIMSON...
...four-year losing battle for his life; of a bladder ailment; in Cheyenne, Wyo. In 1944, newspaper readers across the land helped Nubbins celebrate Christmas six weeks early because he was not expected to live, filled his home with letters and presents (Railroad Tycoon Bill Jeffers sent a toy automobile, Harry Truman sent a book), have since closely followed his two major operations and long fight in hospitals...
Curly-haired, nine-year-old Symphony Conductor Ferruccio Burco (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948) was making himself at home in the fourth grade at a Manhattan school. Called "Butch" by classmates, he had built up a library of comic books, a collection of toy guns (55), and an impression that "some" little U.S. girls are "pretty...