Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kreton is moderately surprised to find himself in the second half of the 20th century. He wears long sideburns and Victorian clothes and had hoped to land in 1860 so that, among other things, he might help the South win the Civil...
...great names of Victorian science, philosophy and theology find a place in Biographer Irvine's brilliant study. Thomas Henry Huxley, who was Darwin's right-hand man and champion, actually takes up half the book. And yet, as Huxley himself readily admitted, it is Charles Darwin who dominates the scene...
Britain's E. S. Turner (The Shocking History of Advertising) doubts that all Victorian couples courted with the fluency of Nat and Miss Somersdown, who are taken from a book on courting etiquette of the year 1877. But he believes that their language illustrates one extreme of the art of courting. The Prince Regent (later George IV) showed the opposite extreme when, on being introduced to his bride-to-be, Caroline of Brunswick, he tottered backwards, crying to one of his courtiers: "Harris, I am not well. Pray get me a glass of brandy...
Chermjayeff, who had written the magazine in protest, denied having given permission for the use of his name on the composite letter. "I consider the concourse to be an excellent example of 19th century Victorian madness and exuberant vulgarity," he said, "but it still performs a useful function...
...Collector Freer (who died in 1919) had a hawk eye for Oriental art, his eye for American painting suffered a Victorian squint. Today Freer officials blush a bit at the gallery's American collection and turn purple when forced to admit that the public favorite at the Freer is Abbott Thayer's Virgin (opposite...