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...instance, see a baby thrown into a basket of roses; but when she has once pleasantly invented that arrangement for you, baby is as like baby and rose as like rose as she can possibly draw them . . . they are blissful just in the degree that they are natural; the fairyland that she creates for you is not beyond the sky nor beneath the sea, but near you, even at your doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Good Old Drawings | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...sways back and forth some, he hasn't slipped yet and may live as long as one of Ringling's elephants. These last, by the way, are the biggest thing of the evening, but with Wizards of the Wire, Emissaries of Brute Erudition and a Glittering Galaxy of Fairyland Folk to choose from, there should be something for anyone. Unless, of course, he's looking for a Message...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Circusgoer | 5/20/1947 | See Source »

...Into Fairyland. For two harried days Judge Picard, an able, conscientious jurist, tried to get somebody to help him define a trifle. Nobody would. Judge Picard recalled that, before the Supreme Court decision, the company had claimed that it took 14 minutes to walk from the time clock to a workbench. The union had said it was only a minute and a half. Now the company claimed that walking time was only two minutes; now the union said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measurement of Trifles | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...Fairyland? Edward Lamb, the smart Toledo lawyer who filed the original case for the pottery workers, did not agree. Neither did C.I.O.'s assistant general counsel, Frank Donner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measurement of Trifles | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...Utrecht, goldsmiths were fashioning another special award: a richly jeweled sword which Queen Wilhelmina will present to General Eisenhower. The Dutch newspaper Het Binnenhoj rhapsodized: "It will be a sword as worn by the kings of fairyland, and it is well earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: L'Etat, C'est Moi! | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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