Word: gaslighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, Jimmy's has occupied great, dreary, genteel Kensington House at 5 Lexham Gardens. Its ponderous Victorian interior-dark red wallpaper and funereal furniture-is still lit and heated by gas. Among the 20,000 rack-brained heads that have bent over their notebooks in Jimmy's gaslight was Winston Churchill's. In 1893 he "swotted" at Jimmy's for Sandhurst. The headmaster said that Churchill was "able enough, but his mind strayed to other interests, was brilliant at history but sluggish in mathematics and science." The French master wanted Churchill thrown out. But he stayed...
...neutral at the beginning of World War I, she got into politics as Wilson's supporter, made Liberty Loan speeches, drilled with voice specialists, wrote the short stories and novels that made her fortune: Just Around the Corner, Every Soul Hath Its Song, Land of the Free, Gaslight Sonatas, Humoresque. Her 1915 marriage to Pianist Jacques Danielson was kept secret until 1920, then made a newspaper sensation when Author Hurst announced that she and her husband kept separate apartments. She traveled in Europe, made three visits to Russia, came back enthusiastic. Said she: "Pervading all the youth there...
Intense, ambitious, handsome, emotional, able, fluent, glib and graceful, Rufus Griswold had left his Vermont home and wandered from town to town as a printer, became a protege of Horace Greeley, got into politics briefly, edited the New-Yorker and other gaslight scandal sheets of the 1830s, married happily and became one of the zealots who insisted that American literature could be emancipated from its subservience to England. He also became a Baptist minister, though he never had a church. His anthology, The Poets and Poetry of America, went through 16 editions in his lifetime...
...with him to the final fadeout. Director Cummings never lets these familiar tactics grow tiresome. Blessed with some truly imaginative and exciting sets, some of the best musical arrangements of this or any other season, a powderbox-full of new dance routines, inspired costuming, he manages to make the gaslight era seem just around a very inviting corner...
...first real shudders in almost two years. Author Hamilton, who raised audiences' hackles with his Rope's End in 1929, can still summon up goosebumps. No crude spook or corpse melodrama, no bloody bundle of closet horrors, Angel Street, which played in London under the title Gaslight, has the good old English knack of brewing a thriller in a teacup, of making a Victorian parlor more menacing than an opium den, of giving to gaitered footsteps a carpet-slippery stealth. This spooky tale of London's gaslit era creates suspense, not by keeping the audience in ignorance...