Word: wonderlander
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...Passos the man is deceptively unlike Dos Passos the writer. Tall, baldish, bobbing and very nearsighted, he looks like a clever, kind, slightly startled Bill the Lizard in Alice in Wonderland. Born in Chicago, his family, friends and fancy have taken him so many hithers & yons about the Western World that a casual acquaintance might be hard put to name his habitat. His grandfather was a Portuguese immigrant who became a shoemaker in Philadelphia. His father, "a self-made literate," volunteered as a drummer-boy in the Civil War, was invalided out of the Army of the Potomac when...
...human nature as he is a lover of the beautiful. He is glad today, therefore, to plan a little journey in the realm of psychology. It's quite a budding field; and then, too, whenever he thinks of psychology he often has his little friend Alice and her wonderland companions to help him out. The Vagabond assures his gentle readers that what follows is as true as Alice herself; and surely no one will deny the veracity of that little girl...
Those who have been with the Vagabond on some of his previous journeys may know that he too is an admirer of Alice and her wonderland friends. It is only the pressure of routine affairs that kept the Vagabond even these few days from telling of a conversation he overheard as he lay musing in his Tower the other night. Alice, apparcutly, had been reading over some fables; and, as usual, trying to make conversation...
Such readers, on opening Negro Du Bois's earnest analysis of the post-war years, will find themselves in an historical wonderland in which all familiar scenes and landmarks have been changed or swept away, surrounded by old historic facts in strange and novel dress, by new facts of whose existence they did not dream, by famed figures, from Lincoln to Charles Sumner, so disguised as to be almost unrecognizable. They will find that the Civil War lasted not four years, but 20; that it was decided, not by superior military strength or strategy, but by a general strike...
...York Junior League last month opened an exhibition of banned books from the time of Confucius to the present. Among them: Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's Richard the Second, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The governor of a Chinese province once banned Alice in Wonderland because in it animals talked, thus putting themselves on a par with humans. Tsarist Russia, fearful lest moppets get fantastic ideas, banned Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. Last week New York Junior Leaguers, delighted by the interest the exhibition had aroused, extended it an extra week, talked...