Word: postered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Back in New York, the money began to roll in and it has never stopped. Like a factory, Christy turned out magazine covers, illustrations, posters. The Christy Girl began to vie with the Gibson Girl in popularity. Two of his best-known models he married: Mabelle Thompson and the present Mrs. Nancy May Palmer Christy. In 1921 he felt himself sufficiently secure financially to give up illustrating and strike out as a painter of celebrities. Since then he has heard Benito Mussolini play the violin, has dined with Marie of Rumania, has made recognizable likenesses of Crown Prince Umberto...