Word: wonderlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he sold a $20 gold piece for $100. In his galleries the hammer has swung on such fabled items as the fifth and final manuscript of the Gettysburg Address ($54,000), the Bay Psalm Book, first book published In the U.S. ($151,000), the manuscript of Alice in Wonderland ($50,000), and a lock of George Washington's hair. His biggest sale was in 1928, when Lord Duveen, British dealer and collector, paid $360,000 for Gainsborough's The Harvest Waggon. That auction, from the estate of U.S. Steel's Judge Elbert Gary, brought a whopping...
Solid Sumner Slichter went into no dreams of his own of an atom-built, atom-powered U.S. wonderland; he assumed only a continuance of the American talent for invention, and the American genius for production. He left the possibility of war out of consideration, as something that could not be charted. Then, projecting forward from known past performance, he predicted...
Busy with TV rehearsals and with plans to play the Mad Hatter in Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland, Wynn saw but one roadblock on his upward path. "The only trouble with television," he said thoughtfully, "is that you can be wonderful this week and just as bad the next...
...that the people so alarmed about the government getting all mixed up in other people's business could at the same time be heartily in favor of high tariffs, and subsidies of farm prices, and subsidies of railroads, and subsidies of merchant shipping. Alice, having stayed too long in Wonderland, might not know that the party that had no issue in last year's election might easily create one for 1950 and 1952 by talking, talking, talking about the "welfare state" as if the words really have a grim, solid meaning...
Announced Acheson: "I want to open the press conference this morning by replying to a question from . . . Mr. Lincoln White. After our last conference, Mr. White asked me whether certain answers [I gave] were inspired by the advice of [the Duchess in Alice in Wonderland], who said...