Word: yo-yo
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...Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. Minette H. Stahl sued F. W. Woolworth Co. & Donald F. Duncan (top distributors) for $31,304 damages incurred when, during a demonstration, she was hit on the back of the, head by a whirling yo-yo...
...could be issued daily, and a congress elected to discuss just what the Harvard Chapter of the Liberty League was going to do. This last might prove the only obstacle to a movement which should, by rights, sweep across the country like "The Music Goes 'Round," or the recent yo-yo fad; but just as lack of leaders cannot be allowed to deflect the stream, lack of a plan should be lightly brushed away until officers were elected and salaries discussed to the satisfaction...
Beck v. Versailles. Vastly different was the impact on the League of Nations last week of that stern, ramrod-backed bean pole in human form, Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck. Only when the craze for yo-yo tops struck Warsaw two years ago was Colonel Beck seen really to unbend, pumping his yo-yo up & down on its string with pleased dexterity. In the past year the Colonel has been on dangerous ground and he trod it firmly last week...
...Came the dawn and he was still there, disheveled and wild-eyed, with the yo-yo string still dangling from his trembling fingers. . . . Eventually poor Blennerhassett was taken away. . . . Today he is happy in a quiet place in the country and under sympathetic surveillance he practices yo-yo...