Word: brighton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...background. At the time of Byron's fame, England was ruled by the fat, "superbly filthy" Prince of Wales, later George IV, who was known to have burst into tears when Beau Brummell criticized his clothing, and whose greatest achievement was his construction of the pleasure resort at Brighton (TIME, Aug. 19). Since George III was locked up as a madman, the prestige of royalty had never been so low. When machinery was introduced, workers rioted, smashing frames and power looms that put them out of work. Byron's first speech was a violent denunciation of early manufacturers...
...giant P plus zealous support of the League of Nations (hitherto the forte of the British Labor Party) which recently proved their pulling power with British voters by winning 11,000,000 ballots in a nationwide straw vote (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week the Labor Party, in convention at Brighton, were so carried away by their loathing of Fascism and the momentum of their years of Leaguophilia that they passed resolutions in effect endorsing the policy of His Majesty's Government. All this made the Conservative Party convention at Bournemouth last week cheerful to the point of overconfidence. Fresh...
Robert E. Wernick '38, of Brighton, was announced yesterday as the Haskins Prize winner for the year 1934-35. The prize is awarded annually to the student enrolled in History 1 whose course essay "best combines skill in historical treatment with distinction of literary skill." Wernick's essay, written during the second half-year, was entitled "The Paris Commune...
Such domestic affairs soon drove the Prince back to Brighton and his first wife, while the Princess and Lady Jersey were both neglected. His growing unpopularity, just as refugees of the French Revolution began flooding England with harrowing tales of violence, worried him constantly, and during his ten-year reign fears of assassination made him miserable. Only at Brighton could he find contentment. The great Pavilion he built there, with its full-blown domes, tall pagodas of porcelain, panels of lacquer, and strange Indo-Chinese style, was his unconscious assertion of his belief in the dignity of kings, of their...
...power of monarchs was everywhere being curbed, and did not live long enough to experience regrets for their cost. Although Sitwell and Barton write long and authoritatively on the beauties of the romantic architecture he sponsored, a taint of snobbishness and affectation is discernible in their accounts. Despite Brighton and its patron's love of art, Thackeray was probably more nearly right about George IV than Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton...