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...stairs, through the front door, down the garden path. There she picks up the White Rabbit (Skeets Gallagher) on- his way to the" party. When she has 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 »

...real bosses had been Hassel and Greenberg who gave him a modest allowance, supplied limousines to "keep up the front." He owned no breweries, knew little about the beer racket, and nothing at all about New York gang murders. When Prosecutor Dewey called his testimony a lie, Wexler wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: End of Wexler | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...surrounding electronic field; matter was a honeycomb of nothingness in electrical space, and the traditional picture of matter and space was flipped upside down. When he heard Dr. Dirac's quiet exposition of this theory, mystical old Sir Oliver Lodge was so excited that he nearly wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Youth & Atoms | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...matto, poveretto," the poor fellow is gone mad, exclaimed the Abbot at the monastery at Samos, while Byron raged with fever, allowing no one in his cell, breaking up the last shred of furnishing, beating Bruno, his unfledged physician, over the head. Bruno tore his hair, gnashed his teeth, wept because he had no power to use his poor skill on his master; the monks trembled and prayed. News of action came. Byron recovered overnight, set forth with miraculous energy; "I believed myself on a fool's errand from the first," he wrote, but he endured everything, the lies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...other extreme of political thought the chief critic of NRA happens to be blind Republican Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota. A mass of political contradictions, Mr. Schall once voted for Democrat Champ Clark for Speaker in the House, yet he almost wept on Pennsylvania's William Scott Vare when the Senate booted out that squat Republican, Now hardly a day passes without a barrage of dead cats for General Johnson from the Schall office on Capitol Hill. The Senator's outpourings have annoyed and embarrassed his Republican colleagues whose silent strategy is to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Dead Cats | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

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