Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the rather unrepresentative and in fact unique undergraduate magazine, Isis, made reply: "Oxford University has become a Pinkerton academy* and we are children indeed." The authorities were accused of having overdeveloped their humor or behaved like the mistresses of a Victorian girl's school...
Emerson was not at ease with Long-fellow. To him the popular poet seemed too much hedged about with formality, too loftily perched on the Cambridge Parnassus. Mr. Gorman, owever, sees in Longfellow "our great Victorian," "an American Victoria," "a fascinating man ... no more dead than the era between 1830 and 1880 in New England is dead", and one who must be understood, with his age, if we are to see "what we are and from what curious urges we evolved." Mr. Gorman is careful not to claim that his portrait "is the man," and professes to give nothing more...
...varied ideas of the period. This is worth while, for it points a warning against the sort of generalization which is fatally easy when one attempts to sum up the ideas of a region or period or circle by such vaguely defined words of all work as Puritanism, Americanism, Victorian, and the like
Finally, last week, the Earl of Rosebery, Baron Primrose, 79, onetime Prime Minister (1894-95), valedicted by reactionaries as "the last Victorian," paused on the brink of the grave (TIME, Feb. 15) to incorporate. His thousands of acres (reputedly he is one of the richest landowners in the United Kingdom) were dubbed The Rosebery Estates, Ltd. Capital stock was issued at a pound a share to a total value of ?362,500 ($1,762,000), half common, half preferred...
...Victorianism? It may well be. Yet in these days of diets and derricks and dynamos the pleasure of seeing in the nominal, phenomenal--or what you will an actual Victoria, drawn by an actual, docile Victorian horse is, in no unreal sense, real, vital, lasting...