Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...VICTORIAN AMERICAN: HENRY...
...this sense, Mr. Hardy is not a modern; he is a Victorian. He does not believe that all he has written is great literature; he has been wise enough to exercise a critical ability in choosing what he admits to print; he is wise enough to know that his later offerings, done at an advanced age, may be lacking in power. So, in true Victorian fashion, he refuses to allow these poems to be published. Moderns will declare that he does not know so much about contemporary fashions in literature as do authors of this generation, that he does...
...considerable note. His works include "The Potter and the Clay," "Rays of Dawn," "Victory and After," and "The Spirit of Peace." He was born in Worcestershire, England, January 28, 1858, and was made Bishop of London in 1901. In 1915 he was created Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, and in 1918 made Prelate of the Order of the British Empire...
...possibility that Mr. Hirschberg will make a vaudeville tour with his specimen is generally discounted since the skull alone weighs 450 pounds, the hip bones are five feet, eight and a half inches long, and a single molar tooth is as large as a foot hassock of the Victorian...
Once there was a little Victorian boy whose father wanted him to become a great statesman. He was sent to Rugby, to aristocratic Trinity College, Cambridge. Then, in order that he might meet statesmen who really mattered, he went to Germany. He became almost intimate with Bismarck, a great feat for a stripling. The Kaiser himself was reported to have listened without displeasure to the conversation of young Austen Chamberlain...