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Word: dodo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followed the Rabbit down his hole, the first person Alice meets, swimming about in a puddle of the tears which she has wept before eating the cake which reduces her to appropriate Wonderland size, is a Mouse (Raymond Hattonj who dislikes her instantly. Next she encounters the Dodo; the supercilious Caterpillar (Ned Sparks); the Frog-Foot-man (Sterling Holloway); the hideous Duchess (Alison Skipworth) maltreating an infant; the Cheshire Cat (Richard Arlen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Wonderland | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...sneezes")-all appear in scenes which occur and vanish incredibly. The Duchess' squealing baby actually turns into a live pig in Alice's arms. Actress Le Gallienne as the White Queen flies giddily about through the air. It is impossible to praise the performers singly. As the Dodo says: "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Alice to the Rescue | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

What Mr. Roosevelt told his many and assorted visitors-an "old dodo bird" of the Wilson era and two Pueblo Indians, an R. F. C. director and a Big Navy lobbyist, a Senator from Illinois and a Senator from France, a onetime Governor of Kansas and a onetime Ambassador to Germany- neither he nor they would reveal. In Washington, Louisiana's Senator Long, radical Roosevelt supporter bucking the conservative Democratic leadership of Arkansas' Senator Robinson (see p. 12), gave this version of interviews with the President-elect: "When I talk to him, he says 'Fine! Fine! Fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Through Ears & Eyes | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...DODO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: In Illinois | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

Sirs: The picture of a stuffed dodo (TIME, Sept. 14, p. 40) is, to the writer's untrained eye, much like a stuffed restoration of the dodo which is prominently displayed in the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh bird differs from the Iowa reproduction principally in having a feathered tail instead of the cottontail effect, the coloring is apparently somewhat more uniform and there are slight differences above the eyes. Why then can Iowa claim "the only Stuffed replica in the world of the dodo?". . . L. L. NETTLETON Pittsburgh, Pa. There is also a reconstructed dodo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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