Word: edwardianism
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Kind Hearts and Coronets. A witty British comedy about an Edwardian gentleman who murders his way into the peerage; with Alec Guinness playing eight roles (TIME, July...
...they had begun to march down Unter den Linden toward the Lustgarten. The route of march was plastered with flags and big propaganda posters, depicting the standard Russian heroes (Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung) and evil-looking "dollar imperialists." One poster showed a trio of capitalist exploiters in Edwardian garb, complete with grey toppers. With the kids marched 10,000 grim-faced "Special Squads" of the People's Police, deeply tanned, obviously well trained-the 1950 version of Adolf Hitler's Storm Troopers. The marchers chanted versified slogans. Sample...
...group of essays deals with contemporary arts and letters--books, criticism, the cinema. The best, and best known is "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown," written in 1924, a spirited and delightful defense of the new literature of Joyce, Eliot, and D. H. Lawrence against the outmoded conventions of the Edwardian "realists," particularly Arnold Bennett. "Mrs. Brown" in the name Virginia Woolf gives a little lady who sat opposite her on a train; the author uses her, an ordinary unknown person, as a symbol of human character...
...single-breasted and one double-breasted, are, as I have heard the word used amongst the quorums of Eighth Avenue & 34th Street, a bit noisy; but to a people who are used to seeing the same juxtapositions of line and color in kilts, the adjustment to this aberration from Edwardian severity shouldn't be a difficult...
...Edwardian settings in her work are easily explained, she thinks. "I used to love looking in mother's picture album. There was such peace and security then." As for the animals: "Of course I'm a frightful old English lady about animals. I adore them. My animals are most utterly benign, you know. To me the lion is the coziest creature in the world...