Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, becomes very wise to the ways of the world, and "developes" as fast as the most hopeful novelist could ask. She runs away form her second husband and, in a fit of abstraction, nearly settles down to a third Not from moral motives--that would be too Victorian--but merely for her own selfish happiness, she at length decides to return to home and her legal mate. Thus the book ends in a commonplace as a sop to the censorious...
...questioningly devoted; Grumps, the bibulous Scotch grandfather, one of the most keenly observed and original figures in recent literature; the histrionic and ineffective father; Godfrey, the actor-brother, with a sonorous voice and the manner of a Grand Duke; Aunt Julie, the Incubus, who descends in all her Victorian smugness on the Hunter household for a protracted and intolerable visit; Felix's wife, " a passionate, exciting pet"; old Jacob, his friend, obstinately liberal, who is " one of the men who deliberately choose their wives...
...November issue of Scribner's Magazine of the old and new standards of education is worthy of consideration. It cannot prove that the present day curriculum is all wrong in the light of the curriculum of the eighties or nineties, for that would be like judging a Victorian by our present ethical code. According to the lights of this age, education in general is probably pretty much all right. What the comparison does prove, if it proves anything, is that the age is all wrong and that education, as an accompaniment of the age, must suffer accordingly...
...story of the education of Fremont McConkey, Hawkeye?how he and the State of Iowa grew up together. The bare-foot boy, born in a sod hut, who assimiliated a curious education from back numbers of The New York Weekly, The Lives of the Presidents and the Victorian poets, became a leading citizen?a prosperous, successful newspaper editor. The waste and beautiful prairies were civilized into the richest farming land in the world. In some six decades the people of that region had bridged the gulf between a life like that of the border ballads?the life of the pioneer?...
...from Chicago for a visit, perhaps to live in Manhattan permanently. Fuller, whose delicately conceived novels and verses are ranked high in contemporary literature in spite of the fact that he has written vers libre, would probably be considered by the sex-ridden rebels of the new writing a Victorian. He is far from that. This shy, small, smiling little white-haired man is a volcano of opinions and ideals. He reads The Dial? which is often more than I can do. He follows current writing avidly. He admires the best work of his younger contemporaries, yet, with his background...