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...lunch at Winthrop House where I note a merry dance is to be held Feb. 21st; but I must confess I do think the poster which doth announce the affair be in poor taste. This I did tell some ones but all they did say was: "We don't expect you to bring your Grandmother!" Alas, I back to the Tower to lick my wounds...
Whereupon I did tell him things he did not know: That this Tower possessed magic charms: It be what you think it to be. Whereupon I showed him the wine barrel; the four poster; the stained glass windows; even the bats and the elves; and, but only for a moment, appeared the Old Woman. Alice, The Hatter, and, most real, the Dormouse...
...have witnessed a great war...our sense of values has changed considerably--ours is the mechanical age and the era of mass education--idealists are tolerated but not believed (and here he looked towards the four-poster where the Vagabond was sitting) but, my friends I am happy to say that despite our materialistic way of things our Alice is just as real today as are the dreams of children. It is therefore fitting that we remember Mr. Carroll today who has brought such a bit of beauty to our lives so often all too drab...
...food. What we get is pretty poor." "I Spend My Money." Loaded with lingerie, perfume, champagne, vodka, cheese and sausages Hero of Labor Alexei Stakhanov was back from Moscow last week in his home on the Donbas Steppe, a four-room shack, the walls of which were decorated with poster pictures not of potent Dictator Stalin but of popular War Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov. Squeaked the Stakhanov family phonograph in English: "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, Big Bad Wolf, Big Bad Wolf...
Just then a loud yawn was heard coming from the top of the four poster: "What's all the fuss about?" asked the Dormouse in a hoarse, feeble voice and slowly opening its eyes. But before anyone could answer: "Oh, no, I, I wasn't sleeping. I heard every word you fellows were saying. And you're making too much fuss about the Oath Bill anyway...