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...filibustered. No Senator had deliberately delayed the debate. The talk had been good, the argument largely honest and toward the point. There had been a minimum of fustian, of rabble-rousing, only one moment of phony melodrama-when Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler had displayed British-made toy lead soldiers, had asked the little Redcoats directly: "What are you doing here? What are you doing here?" (The toy soldiers kept a strict military silence...
After 20 years in disgrace, this Christmas the toy soldier is marching home in triumph. On display at the annual Manhattan exhibition of the Toy Manufacturers' Association were tanks, airplanes, antiaircraft guns, battle cruisers, submarines -a11 reproductions of Army & Navy equipment, accurate down to the insignia...
...toy set inspired by Lieut. General Lear has a group of Red Cross nurses standing beside soldiers who roll their eyes and whistle. Other toys of the times...
...built (1854) and operated by the State, became a political toy train. At one time in North Carolina it was considered almost as disgraceful to be without an A. & N.C. pass as to vote Republican. In 1904 the State leased the line to Norfolk Southern, got it back in 1935 when Norfolk Southern (in receivership) could not keep up the rent. Under State operation again, the A. & N.C. was a red-ink factory. Only by forgetting about repairs was the State able to hold its four-year deficit down...
Carrying "Baby X" on a Hollywood set, Marlene Dietrich tripped on a toy fire engine, twisted as she lunged to break the baby's fall, snapped one of the world's two most famous legs at the ankle. . . Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano had his tonsils out. . .Cinemactress Brenda Marshall had an appendectomy week after husband William Holden. . .Publicity Division: Cinemactress Brenda Joyce's teeth were picked by the Southern California Dental Association as the swellest in Hollywood. . . Warner Bros. insured the beard of Monty Woolley (The Man Who Came to Dinner...