Word: toying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will consent to be Jake Shubert's servile toy...
...youth of today does not necessarily believe in any religion. At least, he does not show to any great extent signs of visible interest. This religious congregation at Yale is merely a new baby, the attraction of all relatives; it is a new Toy, the pet plaything of youth; it is a habit, which one formed is difficult to after at once. The baby will be fondled until it grows older. The Toy will be used carefully until its novelty wears away. The baby will became voluntary until there is no longer any suggestion of compulsion...
...figures. One was a tall figure, one a short. They faced each other, the small one standing with his knees slightly bent, his shoulders hunched, his left thumb insultingly applied to his buttonish nose. In his right hand was a little wooden sword. On his head appeared a crested toy helmet, bravely capped by a toy British flag. Behind his twiddling fingers, the small creature's mouth was opened in scolding anger; his scrubby mustache and beetling eyebrows bristled. His spectacles added to the effect of impotent, scrawny anger, which the tall figure, in familiar top hat and long...
Swift "tanks" sped over the hills of Württemberg-they were really motor trucks. Huge "bombers" and darting "pursuit planes" soared aloft-they were only toy balloons towed by motorcyclists. Great "howitzers" and "field guns" rumbled past-they were made of wood. Finally 25,000 soldiers marched, skirmished and countermarched amid clouds of "poison gas"-the gas was a nonpoisonous chemical fog, the latest invention of German scientists. Thus the traditional autumn maneuvres of the German army took place last week with vivid realism, despite the disarming of Germany under the Treaty of Versailles...
Jutting out in the Atlantic about a third of the way from Lisbon to Philadelphia, are the Azores Islands. Chief of them is Fayal, where the little stone houses of Horta-toy houses of pure pink, blue, yellow and white-rim the smooth-curved harbor. . . . One day last week the volcanic crust of the earth subsided under Fayal. Some 1,500 of the little stone houses of Horta trembled, crumbled, fell down. A tidal wave washed in to paw their ruins...