Word: tennysons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extraordinary. It had been put in communication with Osborne Cottage, and we talked with Sir Thomas and Mary Biddulph, also heard some singing quite plainly. But it is rather faint, and one must hold the tube close to one's ear." Bismarck. "A terrible man, infamous, hateful, monstrous!" Tennyson. "He is very peculiar looking and oddly dressed, but there is no affectation about him." Garibaldi (whose revolutionary tactics against the petty Italian states made possible the present United Kingdom of Italy). "I much regret the extravagant excitement [in England] respecting Garibaldi, which shows little dignity or discrimination...
...many another. Mr. Gladstone passed on the torch of Liberalism to Lord Rosebery as perhaps his chief henchman, and from him it descended via Mr. Asquith to David Lloyd George. By way of picturesque funereal climax, the Earl of Rosebery served as pallbearer to Mr. Gladstone, to poet Tennyson, to painter Millais...
...Amateur Athletic Club (London) and formulator of the formal rules of fisticuffs. Sir John, too, had domestic difficulties: divorced by his first wife, his second marriage annulled. It was Sir John who publicly denounced Poet Oscar Wilde's homosexual practices; Sir John who arose, at Alfred Lord Tennyson's play, Promise of May, and denounced the "imaginary freethinker" portrayed as "an abominable caricature." Sir John died...
Died. John Harling, 93, a member of the famed group of British soldiers who charged the Russians during the Crimean War and were immortalized by Poet Tennyson in "The Charge of The Light Brigade," recipient from the hands of Queen Victoria of the Victoria Cross; at Quincy, Mass., in the night...
...books that are read? There must be a deal of truth in tales of the ocean's monotony, for one "wiper's" list ran thus: Froude, "Life and Letters of Erasmus". Kipling's "Captains Courageous", Russell, "Select Essays", Hazlitt's "Table Talk", Shakespeare's Histories, with excerpts also from Tennyson and Coleridge...