Word: wonderland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being a nasty crack in ''. . . to there are programs on the air catering to physical and mental 7-year-olds." For myself - I am a publicist, aged 38- should check at least 12. For Stephen, aged 7 - he has already denied Santa Claus, read Alice in Wonderland and Huckleberry Finn, and plays a fairly good game of bridge (contract, if you please). He, like Mrs. Sporleder's sons, 8 & 10, leads his grade in school...
...order that Mrs. Reginald Gervis Hargreaves, the original Alice of Alice in Wonderland, might come from her home in Lyndhurst. England to attend the ceremonies, Columbia University postponed its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's birth from Jan. 27 to May 4, which will be Mrs. Hargreaves' 80th birthday. The postponement was arranged to spare Mrs. Hargreaves the rigors of a winter voyage. "Alice" alone survives of the three daughters of Dean Henry George Liddell for whom Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), the sombre, pedantic young Oxford lecturer, composed the fantastic "Wonderland" stories. Her husband...
...unless they were well interlarded with illustrations. So strong was this prejudice in the little girl that once when her sister was reading a volume devoid of such attractions she crawled off down a hole in search of a white rabbit she had seen. Thus was Alice sent into wonderland, and thus did Lewis Carrol scale the heights upon which Charles Dodgson has faltered...
...verse they would write, if they wrote nonsense verse. He has written also many other things both scientific and whimsical among them being "The New Belfry" in ridicule of some bells put up at Christ Church. It may seem incomprehensible to some that a mathematician could evolve such a wonderland out of his precise, factual mind. But reflect, has not a mathematician much nearer home erected for himself a wonderland of equal whimsy; and has he not also his new belfry...
After being the guest of honor at a royal Christmas dinner in the Wonderland of Leverett House, the sacred and revered silver rabbit with his red ribbon vanished completely. What hare-brained knave committed the theft or what his motives were in taking the stuffed specimen of "lepus timidus," who with his younger brothers decorates the coat of arms of the house of Leverett, is a mystery which even the Red Queen would not be able to solve...