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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well over 50 years ago when I was a schoolboy in a Lancashire factory town, and a well-meaning but misguided aunt donated an Eton jacket to help out the clothing problem of a large family, of which I was the youngest. After all these years I occasionally dream of the terrible things which might have happened to me if I had appeared in this abomination on the streets of Eccles. There, anything abnormal was usually greeted with a shower of brickbats, and the curved and pointed toes of the wooden clogs were studded with rows of brass nails with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

This is all very true, but why stop there? Why not add that a two-thirds majority was necessary to pass the proposal, thus Perry's dream of playing in tennis movies and defending the Davis Cup for England went up in smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1935 | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

Perry's Dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1935 | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...little Princess, daughter of King Morpheus; an officious, green-faced fellow named Flip who always wore a yellow top hat and held a long cigar between his huge lips; a grass-skirted savage named Impie. Last panel in every page showed Nemo at home, in bed, waking from his dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: 1935 Nemo | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...juveniles, never a mention of Slumberland, never a hint of a dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: 1935 Nemo | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

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