Word: fairyland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas celebration in Germanic lands is not an invention of the Christian Church but of our forefathers. The day of the Winter Solstice was holy to our ancestors and the period around the Winter Solstice was filled with the fairyland magic of the Nordic soul. In this period gifts were exchanged without an indecent hind-thought of getting a reward from Heaven in return. The Nordic man did not think of a reward for decent deeds. For us therefore, even the Christian Christmas remains a festival of Germanic love, Germanic ways and Germanic benevolence.-Governor Wilhelm Kube of Brandenburg Province...
Missing is its air of fairyland, all but missing its marvelous moon-drenched poetry. But largely missing too are Hermia and Helena and their supporting cast of bores. What remains are the comic ad-ventures of Bottom and his fellow bumpkins, culminating in the uproarious production of Pyramus & Thisbe before the Duke. To many in the first-night audience, Shakespeare seemed almost as good as Billy Rose's Aquacade...
Theme of the fair was developed by Publicist Clyde Milner Vandeburg, who helped promote the recent Dallas and San Diego fiestas. He turned a futuristic, local conception into a glamorous fairyland motif with the slogan: "See All the West in '39." That brought in all California's neighbor States. It wowed the transportation companies. And it was based on the sound perception that, whereas whole families stayed in town for weeks to see San Francisco's marvelous 1915 exposition, the average stay of today's streamlined travelers is two and one half days...
While "embezzlement, bribery and politics" have made "a shambles of Oklahoma City's school system," grumbled the Times, schools in comparable Fort Worth are "an educational fairyland." The paper proceeded to rub it in with two pages of photographs and text picturing Fort Worth's Fairyland...
What U. S. Wagner fans like about Wagner is the surging music and the epic drama; but they lose themselves only temporarily in the make-believe of the Wagnerian fairyland. But in Adolf Hitler's Aryan Germany, that fairyland goosesteps up and down the streets in brown shirts. If Wagner, in his operas, sets will and strength above mere brains, thereby echoing the philosophy of his contemporary, Friedrich Nietzsche, his present-day German disciples have gone him one better. What to him was a theme for art and philosophy is to them a principle of practical politics. Realmleader Hitler...