Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eastbourne (pop. 58,000), where geraniums hang from lampposts, is Britain's most genteel seaside resort and a mecca for wealthy widows who await death in its pleasant Victorian surroundings. For years the teacups buzzed with talk of a local doctor with a large, loyal practice, who doted on his aged patients. He met them at the station after their visits to London, took them for drives in the country, rushed to the bedside at any hour with soothing words...
Once upon a Victorian time the Sheffield Park Branch Railway chuffed for 17 miles through the Sussex countryside, wandering through woodland, farms and bright fields of flowers, bearing children to school, farmers to market and housewives to the shops of Lewes and East Grinstead...
...point, though, that's troubling quite a few businessmen wasn't covered in the story. All isn't hopeless for the company with the desire for the dramatic and utilitarian, but finds itself in what may be considered antiquated quarters. Just as Saarinen remodeled his Victorian farmhouse, so commercial outfits can face-lift their current quarters to get the operational advantages from today's "mature" modern without having to start from the ground...
Architect Saarinen and his wife and son live in a made-over, nine-room Victorian brick farmhouse of 1860 vintage, smoothed off, brightened and painted white inside, and furnished with Eero's furniture. (His mother lives on the back lot in a sleek modern house he designed to fit her favorite, handloomed, 25-ft.-long Finnish rug.) In cutting away a section of one wall to throw light on the main stairway of his old house, Saarinen has made the exterior what he considers "better Victorian than ever." The garage has been converted into a joint study, where Eero...
...appearances assessed and judged as in a cattle market," as the Times of Karachi put it. "A disgrace to the Eastern social order and conventions," proclaimed the head of the powerful Brotherhood of Mullahs. In the face of the uproar, the contest promoters gave up. "We are back in Victorian error," sighed...