Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare instances of an Oxford fiction publication, "Coronation Summer," soon justifies itself as a valuable document in either fiction or non-fiction lists. It is, in short, a mirror of the early Victorian era. In the character of Frances Harcourt the reader is led through the highways and byways of that period when the tiny, buxom, fairy-Queen Victoria was about to ascend the throne of England. Fanny, a native of Norfolk, prepares her pilgrimage to London to see the coronation which was to occur sometime that summer; no one seemed to know exactly when...
...reform the more ugly aspects of life. Dickens was indeed at work here to wield the powers at his command to raise the lower classes from the degradation and poverty which he knew so well. Not only does "Coronation Summer" paint a portrait of Victoria, her coronation, and her era, but it brings out in vivid colors the emotions and the intellectual ambitions which resulted in the works of Dickens. Thackeray, and all the rest...
Retired from business life for the past quarter of a century, John D. Rockefeller belonged to an era which we no longer know, and his work and character can only be judged when placed against the exciting background of the years gone by. As the figures of Cleveland and the first Roosevelt towered above the ordinary men in government at the turn of the century, so the man who built up the empire of Standard Oil set the pattern for that industrial achievement which characterized America during those years...
...head designer, William Starling Burgess. If his boat defends the Cup successfully, Starling Burgess will equal the record made by his father, Edward Burgess, whose Puritan, Mayflower and Volunteer defended the Cup in 1885, 1886 and 1887 and made him the most famed yacht designer of his era...
...torchlight procession-lay a contrast perfectly illustrative of the difference between a mighty empire, with world problems of gorgeous complexity, and a tight little kingdom with 25 years of peace behind it. In a world of Dictators v. Democracies, Denmark this week, in the 25th year of its Christian era, offered a study in sane, happy nationalism that was well expressed in a birthday book published for the occasion.* With the Oslo group of northern European powers beginning to loom as a rallying point for world democracy. King Christian's quiet Silver Jubilee was significant by its very insignificance...