Word: yo-yo
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...declaration of liberty gave "debonaire Don" Perkins a chance to show his wares to the Boston women. No comments as yet in the Boston papers. (May be they haven't uncovered the bodies.) The lad can, really spin a yo-yo...
Postwar Kindergarten. One yo-yo had been given the Latins: the State Department's current series of "Informal Talks" about postwar organization. At the first two, the Latin diplomats sat like school children (they claimed), while Acting Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius told them about the postwar world. At the third "Talk" last week, Uruguay and Venezuela protested against the postwar plan sketched out at Dumbarton Oaks. Other protests were expected...
...have secretly banded together in order to wipe out for once and for all the Crimson Menace. Operating strictly under order from the Blue Square in New Haven, I revealed the intolerable conditions in the Ha'v'd Ya'd and got a DSC and a shiny new yo-yo from the PBY committee (Pour le Bettrement de Yale), Fifth Column Division...
...Winthrop House and De Wolfe Street Yo-Yo and top Spinning Society which claims to hold meetings at odd hours under the Lars Anderson Bridge. A rather shady looking bloke, claiming he was a charter member, gave a last spin to his Yo-Yo and retired for the night whistling "Yokahama Yo-Yo" until it was lost on the night...
...bulls usually hold their own. Sportswriter John Kieran was able to distinguish between dodo, zobo, koto, Yo-Yo, popo, bolo, and locofoco. Scientist Bernard Jaffe, when asked what sextet had recently sung its way to fame, answered correctly: "The Seven Dwarfs." (Dopey was silent...