Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victorian England saw Charles Lutwidge Dodgson as a promising young mathematics lecturer at Oxford with his treatises attracting attention in academic circles. When in an unguarded moment he wrote "Alice in Wonderland," the use of a pseudonym did not serve to veil the identity of the author. He was annoyed at his trivialities attracting public notice--so annoyed that he snubbed the great Victoria when she manifested interest. He did not wish his professional career blighted by a light comedy reputation...
Divorce Suit Rumored. Emily Charlotte (Lillie) Langtry, Lady De Bathe, 75, stage beauty of a generation ago; and her husband, Sir Hugo Gerald De Bathe, 56, of Monte Carlo. The "Jersey Lily," friend of King Edward VII and many another famed Victorian, emerged from a decade of retirement last year (TIME, Feb. 7, 1927) to deny charges of intimacy with Premier Gladstone, made by Author Peter Wright...
...composer and lyricist could have presented a happier and more seasonable combination than the delightful Victorian couple. The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la, are perfect in themselves, but when they are sung to Sir Arthur's music the result is the incomparable gaiety and freshness of a season that, alas, seems all too tardy in arriving--which reminds one that The Mikado is still wandering somewhere between New York and Boston, and that Spring is unofficial until Winthrop Ames has sent his latest revival to lead those bored with sophistication to the Plymouth...
...Lawrence (TIME, April 11)-engage in active warfare with the Turks or indulge in dynamiting their railway trains. Her important war role came later, in helping to tidy up the British victories and install the Government of Irak at Bagdad. Very womanly at heart and just a shade Victorian, she thus describes the arrival at Bagdad of her chief, the first High Commissioner to Irak, Sir Percy...
...third of the Dowse Institute Lectures will be given tonight in Sanders Theatre by Professor A. T. Davison '06. His subject will be "Part-Songs and Anthems of Victorian Composers". Seats will be reserved for ticket-holders until 7.55 o'clock...