Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richardson-pulled themselves together and played at top form for a while; later they faltered, but not so badly as their opponents. On a soggy, rain-soaked court last week in Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium, Australia's Ken Rosewall beat Seixas in the final of the Victorian Tournament, but that did not take the spotlight off floundering Lew Hoad (who had just turned 20 last fortnight). Hoad had barely stumbled through his opening match with Britain's young (20) Roger Becker. Then, in a match with Sweden's Sven Davidson, he eked out a precarious five...
...that even greater exponent of waywardness, Father William. But where Carroll's Humpty crashed to his fate in magnificent indifference and Father William went right on standing on his head, the Headstrong Man is easily brought to earth with a thrown handful of sand and a thoroughly sententious Victorian moral...
Such other blunt moral precepts as "Don't get drunk" or "Keep your wits about you," added to several poems, suggest the testy future schoolmaster. But in one impious song of fraternal friction, there is a glimpse of the irreverence that shocked many a later-Victorian reader...
...sophisticated adult to return again to the gentle irresponsibilities of childhood and to view from there the absurdities of adult life. As a man, Lewis Carroll was an inspired escapist. As a boy, he seemed merely too anxious to be grownup. His bitterest plaint is that against a Victorian Good Fairy...
...those few who can remember back to the period between 1870 and the depression, the Gold Coast was a string of expensive dormitories for sociable sons of millionaires. With swimming pools, squash courts, high Victorian ceilings, and elaborate marble mantels, these mansions stood, as a contemporary has written, "in relatively obscure streets traversing the gentle slope between the center of the University world at Harvard Square and the world's end at the Charles River...