Word: dickenses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The White House Christmas settles into its stride on Christmas Eve. In the afternoon the President will make a brief national broadcast, and light the National Community Christmas tree. After dinner Franklin Roosevelt, a longtime lover of Tiny Tim, reads aloud to his family Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol.
A London barrister, an idealist, but no businessman, pink-faced Tom Hughes set the younger sons to laying out cricket fields, tennis courts, organizing a Rugby football team, dramatic societies, a cornet band. In the Tennessee mountains old English homes sprang up, a "Tabard Inn," a church, a library which...
Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary is old enough to be remembered with horror by Dickens in his American Notes (1842). It was known then, as now, as the Cherry Hill prison. One night last week, over Philadelphia's KYW, the inmates of 110-year-old Cherry Hill staged...
For this chronicle of wasted crime, Producer-Director Rowland Lee and his Scripter-Brother Robert N. Lee claim they boned through 350 volumes of British history. The picture suggests that they might have achieved the same result with less labor by referring to Charles Dickens' A Child's...
But most English writers remained in England, where the vast armory of English literature was being mobilized along with the rest of the Empire. In the first week of the war the London Times recommended, for blackout nights, a reperusal of such "lenitive" 19th Century giants as Trollope and Dickens...