Word: wonderland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...juveniles, in addition to the usual Biography, Drama, Travel, Poetry and History sections. The list ranges from Benvenuto Cellini's Auto biography to the Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, from Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (banned in Boston) to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland...
...front of which stood a half table. Just when it seemed that the 62-year-old Queen Empress' eyesight must be failing, that she had mistaken the mirror for a passage, the whole contraption suddenly revolved, mirrored wall and table turning upon noiseless hinges, and Mary vanished into wonderland...
...will not be permanent. Most important in the picture are the songs, and the best of them, soon to be heard from the loudspeaker in the transom of many a radio and phonograph store, are "Puttin' on the Ritz," "Vagabond Song," and "With You." Best shot: the Alice in Wonderland sequence...
...Spanish trade route from Buenos Aires to Lima, resulted in Across South America (1911). He led a Peruvian expedition which discovered the last Inca capital, climbed Mt. Corpuna (21,703 ft.) in the Andes. Out of these excursions came Vitcos, the Last Inca Capital (1912), In the Wonderland of Peru (1913), Incaland...
...England, Lincoln was as harshly treated as at home. Punch printed grotesque caricatures of the "boor" by its greatest draughtsmen, John Leech and Sir John Tenniel, later famed for his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland illustrations. The magazine Fun carried a series of bitter drawings by Matthew Somerville Morgan, whose work has only recently been discovered by Lincoln authorities, purporting to show "Honest Abe" a thief, demagog and charlatan. But it was in the South the most galling pictures were drawn. One Adalbert J. Volck of Baltimore struck upon the novel idea of showing ''Honest...