Mr. Mizrahi is hardly alone in his fascination with what was once considered a childhood pastime.

Nazarian says that one of his childhood pastimes was ironing dollar bills; Sharon remembers him selling grocery-store baseball cards to classmates at an inflated price.

The second ray is set in Mithilā, describing the manifestation, and childhood pastimes and events from the life of Sītā.

This fight seemed to have taken a lot out of Thompson, who went back to his childhood pastime of fishing.

Russian Tsar Peter the Great is known to have built several as a childhood pastime.

"I have been researching childhood pastimes," Seven said.

And after all, the computer game can't really be the first childhood pastime ever to shrink its players' imaginations.

Airplane models may conjure up images of hobby shops and childhood pastimes more readily than art galleries.

During the 1940s, Metcalfe returned to a favorite childhood pastime: writing poetry.

Newspapers delight in publishing outrageous examples of how the compensation culture is said to be ruining childhood pastimes.