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Last week Neville Chamberlain returned from his Scottish salmon-fishing trip. The fishing had been poor but London toy-shops sprouted timely little booted Neville Chamberlain dolls holding a rod & reel in one hand, a little sign saying PEACE MAKER in the other...
...considering these facts, Vag will not predict or even analyze today's gridiron situation. He has preferred to toy with random history for the nonce. For him, the slight coincidence that Waterloo and West Point both begin with the letter "W" is alone quite enough to set the Vagabondian Underwood to growling out phrases...
...yachting uniforms, professionals who groom the sleek boats for "amateurs" to take the tiller in the races and a society that goes with them are all missing. Perhaps the cup yachts and their smaller sisters are not, as many a fishing skipper is apt to term them, just "damn toy boats"; but the sight of two vessels that have earned their way and can take the weather as it comes is bound to be a heart-warming one to every sailor. It doesn't make any particular difference who wins, and much of that will be in the breaks...
...content with the protection of his cryptic shorthand when he confided his amours to his diary, Pepys added further screens by making up a pidgin language of French, Spanish and Latin, with toy words and a freakish kind of lustful baby talk. "She would not suffer that je should poner my mano above ses jupes which je endeavoured," he wrote of one modest soul. But although Librarian Turner transcribed such passages, Pepys's secrets are still reasonably safe 270 years after the night Mrs. Pepys caught him with the charming Deb Willet. Talking things over with publishers and college...
Four years ago Herbert W. Graham, supervising metallurgist for the fourth largest U. S. steel maker, Jones & Laughlin, persuaded his company to build a miniature steel mill for research. This $175,000 toy mill's open-hearth furnace, ingot molds, soaking pit and rollers produce one-inch square bars...