Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joined the Roman Catholic Church, and since there was no church of that denomination any nearer, he could stay at home Sundays from now on." Other members of the family adapted themselves to the manners and morals of the day with equal resourcefulness. Cousin John Rand, a fashionable Victorian portrait painter and the inventor of the collapsible paint tube, was a fine figure of a man. "He stood an even six feet, four inches; his wife did not quite reach five feet. Fashion decreed that the lady should always take the gentleman's arm, but alas...
What Labor needs in the long run, said Attlee, is a leader "brought up in the present age and not, as I was, in the Victorian age." It was a polite way of suggesting that Morrison would be expected to make way for a younger man before the next election, probably in 1960. Two such candidates are radical "Nye" Bevan, 57, the tough and noisy non-Victorian from the Welsh coalpits, and moderate Economist Hugh Gaitskell, 49, the scholarly-looking favorite of the big trade unions. Gaitskell is by far the stronger candidate. A skillful debater whose economic ideas...
Steeped in the common-sense science of the Victorian Age, the public thinks of scientists as dangerous warlocks. "The popular picture of the scientist," says Bronowski, "lends itself to the basic totalitarian tricks which exploit the insecurity of the ignorant: an awe of the specialist, a hidden hatred of him, and a cleft between his way of thinking and theirs...
Under Costain's pen, the tontine loses all drama and suspense, becomes simply a century-long marathon dance of unreal, Victorian marionettes...
...Faced with making a 1955 movie out of Trilby, George du Maurier's period novel of 1894, Director Noel Langley decided to play the story straight. As a result, moviegoers get a full treatment of the giant-sized nobilities and epic despairs that swirl up from Victorian drama, reflected in the iridescent mirror of fin de siecle Paris...