Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady Louis Mountbatten. the slim, attractive wife of Britain's Southeast Asia Commander, became a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order...
...began in a musty Victorian house in Manhattan's Chelsea 'district. But there was nothing else musty about the New School for Social Research. Among its founders in 1919 were four intellectual mavericks: Historians Charles A. Beard and James Harvey Robinson, Philosopher John Dewey and Economist Thorstein Veblen. The New School was for adults who had learned the wrong things in college, or not enough, or had never been there...
When Wilde's plays first appeared on the London stage they were called and it is no wonder--the "greatest comedies since Congreve." After the Victorian theatre, with its platitudinous melodramas and sentimental farces, Wilde's comedies of manners, brilliant and epigrammatic, with a high polish of artificiality, constituted a revival so sudden that it seemed an innovation...
William Makepeace Thackeray, the eminent Victorian novelist ( Vanity Fair, Pen-dennis), was a passionate gambler and for years indulged an enigmatic infatuation for the wife of a fashionable London clergyman. These somewhat Elizabethan lapses have been whispered about. But they could never be fully confirmed. Reason: before his death, Thackeray told his daughter, Anne, to see to it that there were no Thackeray biographies. She did-by the simple expedient of locking away the bulk of her father's correspondence and other vital data...
...Beerbohm, 73, famed British satirist, resuming BBC broadcasting after a three-year retirement, reminisced about the Victorian theater, which a great many people had frowned on. "The small son of that great actress, Mrs. Kendall," he recalled, "on his first day at . . . school . . . was asked by an elder boy, 'Your mother is an actress, isn't she?' He replied with spirit: 'If you say that again I will knock you down...