Word: yo-yo
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Yo-a child's top so made that when thrown from the hand it starts to spin as its string unwinds, then winds up the string on itself and returns to the hand. During the past two years a Yo-Yo craze has swept Europe. Among smart Parisians, Berliners and Londoners are hundreds of exalted Yo-Yo addicts, notably Edward of Wales. Just before Edouard Herriot fell as Premier of France, a Paris weekly pictured his frantic appeals to all sections of the Chamber of Deputies by printing a composite photograph in which...
...Herriot lost and about the time of his fall Syrians seriously took up the Yo-Yo, hopped about Damascus and Aleppo, delightedly Yo-Yoing...
Solemnly the priests waited upon Sheik Taj-ed-Din. "Excellency, the Yo-Yo is the reason for the drought!" they cried. "The up-and-down movement of these infidel tops counteracts the prayers of the pious for rain. Allah is angry! Rain will never fall again in Syria while the wicked play with Yo...
Filipinos are credited with coining "Yo-Yo's" present name. When the Duke of Wellington played with one. Englishmen called it a "Quiz." Most dictionaries, including Webster's, stick to the old name "Bandalore...
...modern France some garrison commanders punish with two days in "clink" a poilu found playing with a Yo-Yo, consider it a menace to discipline. Modern Yo-Yoing was launched in London by Baron Beaverbrook's Conservative Evening Standard which coached its readers in endless Yo-Yo tricks: "loops." "break-ways," "skinning the cat," "three-leaf clovers" and "Bow Bells." Most dangerous Yo-Yo maneuver is "around the world," in which the spinning top gyrates about its thrower's head in a circle which alternately widens and contracts...