Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, however, the Pimlico Special (a weight-for-age affair at a mile-and-three-sixteenths for three-year-olds and up) was recognized as the annual post-season race that determines the U. S. thoroughbred champion. Some 25,000 turf fans crammed into Pimlico's mid-Victorian stands to see if this year's Special would be as dramatic as the first two.† Contenders for the title were William L. Brann's three-year-old Challedon, Charles S. Howard's four-year-old Kayak II and Townsend B. Martin's four-year...
...Japan, Victorian England, and Harlem is a wild combination in any man's way of thinking. But such a combination conceived by Messrs. Todd, Short, and Robinson, and put on as "The Hot Mikado" is an all-time high in sacrilegious lunacy. Gilbert and Sullivan worshippers would probably rather hear a Goodman rendition of Beethoven's Ninth than their beloved "Mikado" slapped into the groove by a lot of Darktown strutters. But like so many iconoclasts, Michael Todd seems to be getting away with his Great Idea and packing the houses as royally as any D'Oyly Carte company ever...
...blue sapphire, a memory of childhood, and a "gallant Gesture,"--these are the elements which Percival Wren molded into a chivalric romance set in his own time, the dying days of the Victorian era. Hs novel forms such exciting dramatic material that countless actors of stage and screen have tried their hand at it. Latest are Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston as the "Beau Geste" trio...
...picture follows George Eliot's book very closely, so some of the more impossible situations in the plot have to be blamed on her Victorian methods of story-writing. When Maggie Tulliver stands in the forbidden embrace of Philip. Brother Tom conveniently hoists himself over a fence in the background. When Maggie breakfasts with Stephen after having spent an unwilling night in his company, she is seen by all and sundry who might like to defame her character. The poor girl doesn't have a chance...
PROFESSOR TINDALL, in this witty and searching book on the outstanding primitivist of our time, has been concerned with two fundamental points: Lawrence viewed as in the stream of post-Victorian intellectual revolt against Christianity, evolution and scientists in general; and secondly, Lawrence taken as a symbol of the frustrated romanticism which Professor Tindall finds to be the true essence of our age. He accompanies Lawrence on his spiritual peregrinations into the wilds of theosophy, and for the first time offers a complete investigation of the novelist's reading...