Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quadrille brought the Lunts back to Broadway in a Noel Coward period piece they had played for two seasons in London. It is, for Coward, rather Victorian in spirit as well as in setting; it scents its sinfulness with lavender, bodices its escalades in whalebone. The story takes a long evening to unfold, but can be summarized in a sentence. A marchioness and an American rail baron pursue their eloping spouses (Edna Best and Brian Aherne), fall in love while separating the lovers, and themselves elope in turn...
...Franciscans braced themselves last week for the city's first invasion by a major hotel chain, and no native regretted the change more than a shy little lady in her 705. She was Mrs. William B. Johnston, president and majority stockholder of the famed, Victorian-flavored Palace Hotel, which is being taken over by Boston's Sheraton Corp. Said Mrs. Johnston, who was born in the Palace and whose family has owned the hotel all its 79 years: "It's the trend of the times, isn't it? All the great old hotels are going into...
Toynbee ridicules the smugness of the 18th and 19th centuries in terms of a Max Beerbohm cartoon (see cut). The Enlightened Dandy is so taken with his perfection that he can conceive of the future only as a gawkier version of himself; the Victorian Bourgeois is so optimistic that he sees the future as a figure fairly bursting with progress. But Toynbee believes that the 20th century's thin, frightened young man who sees only a question mark in the future ("Is he perhaps wondering whether he can even look forward to having any successor of any kind...
...brief years, the last of the Regency Whigs held the hand of the first of the Victorian moralists. But the heyday of the Whig aristocracy was over. When the young Queen married her stern, respectable Prince Consort, Melbourne found himself in the doghouse. For a while Lord M fought the changing order, and his aged voice could be heard crying: "This damned morality will ruin everything!" But at last he retired to the country. "The fire is out," he told his friends bluntly. "The fire...
...distinguished company that made the house a delight to the young Wildes; it was "the smiling giant, always exquisitely dressed, who crawled about the nursery floor with us and lived in an aura of cigar smoke and Eau de Cologne." Unlike many another stiffly Victorian parent living on Tite Street, Wilde was always ready to romp with his boys, mend their toys and enter into their games...