Word: wonderland
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...difficult for me to express my gratitude to you for having cast me in the role of Alice in this Wonderland, but certainly I no longer doubt the existence of Americans-even in our land of planned scarcities-since, through your generosity, I met Robert B. Snowdcn Jr. here on his Arkansas plantation...
Across the country, as smart Jackson Elliott could see, the pension wave had lesser crests, and in California spring tide seemed at hand. California the wonderland, California the rugged and golden, lies at that edge of the continent where the migrations that made the nation ended. There the last vanguard of pioneers halted and the rearguard of sick, halt, lame, blind, crooked and crazy have caught up. It is a home of saints and scoundrels, heroines and houris. There since Depression I has grown up a strange society in which men born in the great open spaces and hardshells with...
Keith Memorial is holding over Sonja Henie and Richard Greene in 20-the Century Fox's "My Lucky Star." One gargantuan skating sequence, the Alice in Wonderland ballet, dominates the picture, in spite of young Englishman Greene's pretty face. In addition is a dubious offering, "Personal Secretary", with William Gargan and Andy Devine...
...arouses the jealousy of her less fortunate classmates. It also permits Miss Henie to model a collection of cold-weather creations which female cinemaddicts are likely to find even more eye-worthy than the tricks Miss Henie executes while wearing them. Best of the latter is an Alice in Wonderland ballet...
...month and by freedom from any compulsion to be fashionable, such exhibiting artists as Raymond Breinin, Lester Schwartz, William Schwartz, Hester Miller Murray, Joseph Vavak and Mitchell Siporin showed growing talent, intelligence, style. In sculpture the variety was especially striking, from Mary Anderson's crisp Alice in Wonderland (see cut), in which the technique of Magazine Artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker seemed adapted to stone, to Edouard Chassaing's knotty, Gothic Aesculapius (see cut). Most curious planes were observed in a plaster "diorama" entitled Reclamation of Eroded Farm Land (see cut), by Chicago's rugged old-timer Rudolph...