Search Details

Word: toying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Johnson, a Marine Corps reserve captain and one of the foremost U.S. small-arms experts, holds that anyone can learn to shoot with his toy as efficiently as with an ordinary rifle. The Marine Corps and the British Government are considering them for possible use in training. One Marine Corps base has already ordered some to sell in its post exchange. In his small two-story, ivy-covered plant at Cranston, R.I., Johnson has already turned out 10,000 rifles for sale in toy and gun stores. Retail price: $15. With the target rifle he hopes that his company, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Range in the Home | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...beavered, somewhat pixillated old gentleman (Edmund Gwenn) who calls himself Kris Kringle and isn't kidding. So far as he is concerned, he is the original, the one & only Santa Claus. As such, he is well pleased to take the throne in R. H. Macy & Co.'s toy department. His employer (Maureen O'Hara) regards him as a harmless old lunatic and her grimly progressive little girl (Natalie Wood) is sure he is an outright fraud. Kris stakes his earthly failure or success on winning them over to the faith. Meanwhile he raises hob with the Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Divorced. By Gail Patrick, 34, deadpan cinemadventuress and onetime Panther Woman: Arnold Dean White, 34, toy manufacturer; after 2½ years of marriage, one of separation; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...this gallery emerge two of Dostoevsky's most brilliant creations. One is aged Prince Sokolsky, a kindly, nutty, wealthy widower who loves to toy with the idea of marrying again-and is dumfounded to learn that his rapacious heirs are plotting to have him shut up in an asylum. The other is Versilov, Arkady's father, a shrewd but patient man who well comprehends the feelings of insult and injury that seethe inside his illegitimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sinners In Chaos | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...camel, Walter Pidgeon seems uncomfortable enough describing a provocative negligee to a Smart Shop salesgirl, or dancing the Big Apple in a patched-up farmhouse. The misunderstood Miss Allyson and her confused stop-mother, Claudette Colbert, also try hard, but the highlight of the picture is a novel toy that spells out "I love you" whenever somebody spins it. This intriguing device again proves that MGM can always dig up something entertaining--even though it's not always a movie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/15/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 554 | 555 | 556 | 557 | 558 | 559 | 560 | 561 | 562 | 563 | 564 | 565 | 566 | 567 | 568 | 569 | 570 | 571 | 572 | 573 | 574 | Next