Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harbors were plowed with small craft filled with eager observers. The headlands were freighted with watching multitudes gathered from miles around. The Victorian Parliament adjourned for three weeks in celebration. In Melbourne, streetcar men postponed a strike until after the fleet's departure. All officials were profuse of words. Said Admiral Coontz...
...others" long pestered Cook Rosa Lewis of the Cavendish Hotel, London, for her "story." Now it is told, in her own saucy words, to a honey-tongued minion of The Pictorial Review. From a pigtailed slavey to a wealthy, highly temperamental, badly spoiled but charming intimate of all the Victorian bigwigs including the seventh Edward, his cousin Wilhelm and even some Boston Cabots-that is a story made more remarkable by the absence of any evidence that Rosa operated sub rosa. By sheer elbow-grease, gaiety and culinary cunning, she became, she says, and remains, the outstanding cook...
Shades of the early Victorian period are rampant once more. Despite Mr. Bryan and the existence of certain dogmatic sects, most educated men had supposed, until the recent furor in Tennessee was stirred up, that the old debate of evolution vs. religion had been stilled forever. The truth of the theory of evolution, it seemed, had been universally acknowledged; and the necessary theological readjustments, made by the greatest intellectual figures of those bitter days, had become the basis of the modern world's view of life...
Tales of a Great Victorian, Conrad in a New Edition and Rolling Home fortify the reader's impression that the late captain of all seagoing novelists is thoroughly understood by his mate...
Died. Miss Elizabeth Lisle, 104, prominent in British society during the Victorian era; in London. Presented at court in 1845, she was fond in later years of telling how Queen Victoria slid down stairs on a tray on the eve of ascending the throne...