Word: toying
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...proprietor, Graham plans to divide his time more or less equally between Washington and New York. Newsweek's neuter approach to the news is bound to yield to Phil Graham's outspoken Democratic liberalism. And Phil Graham himself seemed like a kid with a new toy. "It may be fun and it may be agony," said he of his new venture. "But I'm glad...
When Branwell got a box of toy soldiers as a present, he and his sisters gave them individual names and then went on to weave fantasies and adventures around them that would shortly turn the rectory into a feverish, secretive writers' workshop. They dubbed themselves the Four Genii: Genius Tallii (Charlotte), Genius Emmii (Emily), Genius Annii (Anne) and Chief Genius Brannii (Branwell). The writing began when Branwell was twelve, and the first two toy-soldier games, "The Young Men's Play" and "The Islanders" (in which each child peopled an island with heroes of his own choice) fused...
...every trick, on to every wile, physically all bounce, mentally all barbed wire. Hirsch's Scapin seems even more resourceful than Molière's, and on a stage full of antique, chattering magpies and grinning dolls and grimacing puppets, he is a kind of unpredictable mechanical toy with, at moments, shock value as well as spin...
...After frequent consultations with his wristwatch. as if timing his decisions to television, Judge Joseph E. Redden, himself a terrier fancier, pointed to Sister. Said Redden: "It resolved itself into a choice of the two poodles. There was remarkably little difference in their breed characteristics. In my opinion, the toy was better in the head, and that was the deciding factor...
...Noun" has a lovely beginning: The cold brussels sprout rolled off the page of the book (by Faulkner) I was reading and laying inert and defunctive in my lap. Turning my head with a leisure at least three-fourths impotent rage, I saw him or rather the reverse, the toy the fat insolent flet and then above that the bland face beneath the shock of hair like tangible...