Word: gaslit
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...pattern of New York's history have been the dozens of prima donnas who made news with every utterance, set fashions in food and dress, left vivid memories with every song they sang. Old men still live who remember pious Jenny Lind when she trilled in gaslit Castle Garden, a protégée of that amazing Yankee, Phineas T. Barnum. Adelina Patti was singing at the old Academy of Music on 14th Street when broughams first brought Vanderbilts and Astors to the shiny new doors of the Metropolitan Opera House...
...according to Historian Philip Guedalla he should have died on the day of his coronation. For the story which Guedalla told in his The Second Empire is one of anticlimax, of a nouveau riche court, a theme for irony and wisecracks, the Napoleonic legend reduced to farce. "The gaslit tragedy of the Second Empire," Guedalla contemptuously called the regime which was born in intrigue in the early 1850's, found its Empress in the granddaughter of a foreign keeper of a wine shop, and collapsed in a shambles when Bismarck and Moltke sent their crack Prussians into France...
...book. Preferring heroics to irony, and following the career of a man who is one of the "outs," to satirizing the bigwigs of the "ins," Neumann has wisely terminated his story of Louis Napoleon in the early '50's. Another Caesar is the prelude to the "gaslit tragedy." It is a big, colorful, shrewd novel that sticks pretty closely to the actual course of history. Conversations may be invented, but the characters are all out of the past. And Neumann's analysis of personality and motive is strictly in accordance with the probabilities. His Louis Napoleon...
...Sweet Adeline" (1903). Harry Armstrong wrote the music in Somerville, Mass., when he and three other Somerville boys were annoying the townsfolk by singing quartets on the gaslit street corners. In New York some years later Armstrong found a lyricist in Dick Girard who chose Adeline to rhyme with pine. "Sweet Adeline" had its best sales during Prohibition. Harry Armstrong now runs an entertainment booking bureau in Manhattan. Dick Girard clerks in the New York General Post Office...
...that time when Harvard ceases to be a teacher and becomes a dues-collecting unit of freemasonry, he will step out into the world tolerably well-acquainted with Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dryden, Tennyson and other literary worthies. He may even know the encyclopaedic facts concerning the French Romanticists of the gaslit era and the battlefields of the Sturm und Drang may be an open book to him. But it is questionable whether or not he is sufficiently prepared to keep his calm in a world of raucous dust cover blurbs, eclectic modern poetry, and rumbling Broadway controversies. Had he been able...