Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drafting of nearly all legialation expert the NRA, he days. To them the constitution is just a foil for clever fencing- an antediluvian joke to be respected in public like a Sacred Cow and regarded in private somewhat as Gertrude Stein probably regards the poet Tennyson, or any other Victorian...
...standards of value have changed since the Victorian are, the utility and structure guild replies. We so longer build colleges, or anything else, in the "General Grant" Goths of the dark and stuffy interiors, then fronts tortured with ornament...
Machine age esthetic stimuli are found in straight forward, business like buildings, where our Victorian grand parents insisted on gingerbread ornament from which to drape their tendrils of memory and affection." The sentimental Victorian distinction between "architecture" and "Building" no longer prevails for the modernist...
Died. Giovanni Pertinax Morosini, 75, retired banker, eldest son of Banker Giovanni Morosini. aide to Garibaldi, art collector and onetime partner of Jay Gould; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. The elder Morosini left a museum-like Victorian mansion and an estate once estimated at $25,000,000 to his children, of whom Victoria married a coachman, Giulia a policeman. Amalia, an invalid since birth, survives...
Sharing none of Thackeray's prejudices, Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton, in their new history of Brighton, find George IV, while not exactly an ornament to Britain, at least no unmixed Victorian monster. His streak of family insanity "had softened down to a curious, harmless and most effective eccentricity." He was frequently drunk, but no more so than most English aristocrats of that period. His delusions, that he had defeated many butchers and bakers in fistfights, that he had commanded at many a battle, including Waterloo, were merely symptoms of the same madness that had made his old father...