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...suggest a method by which the American people may express their opinion of the present German Government? Why should not committees be formed in towns to make house-to-house collections of objects made in Germany, which might be destroyed in public bonfires? Almost every house contains some broken toy or picture-book, of no great value to the owner, that would serve as a symbol for this purpose. The collections could be made in a few afternoons, at small expense; and the language of bonfires seems to be the only one that Germans at present understand. If these mass...
...lives with his pretty wife on a ten-acre "ranch" in San Fernando Valley, where he stables "Champion" and his five other less famed horses. Last year sales of Autry's phonograph records equaled those of Bing Crosby's. A manufacturer who set up a line of toy revolvers modeled on the one he carries sold 100,000 in three weeks...
...grade, his father was unwillingly escorting him each Saturday afternoon to the roundhouse and shops of the railroad where Petit Vag examined everything with the careful eye of a visiting official. The railroaders were alternately amazed, amused, and flattered by his youthful attentions. Then, after an expensive ara of toy electric trains, which were never really realistic enough, Petit Vag was shipped off to prep school, bribed into going chiefly by the fact that it entailed a long train ride...
...punch, the wipers, the brakies--a score of Uncle Romes enthusiastically puttering around their little system, running it with loving appreciation of its operating difficulties. It is more than play to them. The M. M. R. R. is operated too similarly to the real railroads to be a toy. Its very complexity and completeness makes it exciting and real to those men. There service and ability have their reward: the hardest worker is the head man, and a Boston and Albany switch engine hostler may "run" the M. M. R. R.'s crack express if he shows "the stuff...
Aboard the Deutschland the 591 passengers, jarred by an explosion that rippled the floor of the D deck dining room, danced, watched a cinema show, slept while the crew fought ten hours to quell the fire in the cellulose, paper and Christmas-toy cargo. Only casualties were fire fighters who got a taste of smoke; safe in the after hold were 46 tanks of Australian fighting fish, 5,000 Harz Mountain canaries...