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Years before the War, Herr von Tirpitz gave up hope of beating the British fleet in open battle, concentrated secretly on submarines, then little more than an experimental toy. Many are the stories told of the grand admiral's extraordinary technical knowledge. It was a matter of pride with him never to speak from notes. Aides recall that during his years as grand admiral he could recite from memory the name, speed, armament and displacement of every battleship in the world...
...future generations of men for his audience. So I thought and dreamed. Yet today I am afraid there is less music in the heart and mind of the common man than ever before in history. I gave them the motion picture. At first I thought it was a toy. Then, too late, I saw that it was the medium of a new art. For by that time it had become merely a new racket for the pants-makers, and millions of minds were being trivialized and anaesthetized by that endless flicker of falseness and venality. How much of my work...
...Great Falls, Mont., Art Leweke got rid of a hungry golden eagle by tying to its tail a toy balloon, a brass bell...
Many A Slip adopts it, upon the advice of her mother, to provoke just the opposite effect?a proposal of marriage from a cynical and recalcitrant swain. Once she gets him, she learns that babies do not always come with husbands and is highly embarrassed by the arrival of toy trains, mechanical bunnies, other anticipatory gewgaws. And when her husband learns the truth he makes it very clear that he objects to such fetal fooling. But, child or no child, she manages to keep...
Discussing the Harvard system of allotting tickets, which gives each class good seats at one of the season's major games, Captain Jones said, "It is a very good idea with which to toy around. But our problem is complicated by the fact that generals expect better seats than lieutenants...