Word: edwardianism
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Kuhn has developed the Busch-Reisinger from a museum "hopelessly Edwardian" in tone, full of plaster casts of German statuary, into a "remarkably unique collection of original Germanic art," John P. Coolidge '35, Director of the Fogg Museum, said yesterday...
...Edwardian England, an orphan named Kipps (Tommy Steele) finds a little girl on his waif length (Julia Foster). Before their friendship can mature, he is sent to far away London as an apprentice to a scrofulous Shylock. Kipps owns nothing in life but a sixpence, which he splits with his girl; he will come back to her, he promises, as soon as he can. But when his grandfather dies and leaves him a fortune, he forgets his vow and falls for a wealthy, beautiful snob. Can Kipps really be such a cad? Of course not. In the end, he loses...
...trotted out regularly; last week The Importance of Being Earnest opened with Dame Flora Robson, and Hay Fever opens this week. Producers have even harked back to such antiques as The Bells, a Victorian melodrama in which Sir Henry Irving made his reputation, and John Galsworthy's hoary Edwardian relic, Justice, a preachy treatise on crime and punishment...
...course catalogue lists History 144b, "England in the Twentieth Century," as "an investigation of political, social, and intellectual change from the Edwardian era to the Welfare State...
...reflecting miles of gilded plaster. Magnificence had become largely a semi-public affair, as in Queen Victoria's railway carriage (sapphire satin and tasseled draperies with a white quilted ceiling) and not merely ostentatious, as in the dining room at London's Ritz Hotel ("the most beautiful Edwardian restaurant in existence...