Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the national tennis tournament at Forest Hills last summer, U.S. Davis Cup hopes hit bottom. The U.S.'s No. 1 player, Vic Seixas, was soundly whipped by a fuzz-cheeked Australian named Ken Rosewall, 17. Last week, at Australia's Victorian tournament, last warmup before the Davis Cup interzone finals, U.S. hopes were clearly on the rise...
...retiring Victorian bachelor named William Harnett was probably the best of all U.S. still-life painters. His After the Hunt is the public favorite at San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Harnett painted it for the Paris Salon of 1885, "to discover whether or not the line of work I had been pursuing had or had not artistic merit." Paris liked the picture...
Back in President Eliot's time, the proposal of a course in sex education, marriage, and mental hygiene would have been greeted by a shocked silence. To any Victorian, these topics were private matters, and not part of a liberal education...
...tailor, made a fortune out of introducing the U.S. to the ready-made suit. Probably in honor of the seamstresses he employed, Simmons left the bulk of his estate for a college that would prepare girls to earn "an independent livelihood." In 1902, in temporary quarters near Victorian Copley Square, the college opened, with courses in domestic engineering, secretarial and library work, and general science...
...improve his parliamentary technique, he traveled everywhere with a phonograph on which he played records of the speeches of Britain's Victorian Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, was soon throwing such high-caliber cliches at the Opposition as "Sword of Damocles" and "Bed of Procrustes." On one such occasion the Speaker of the House, a sensitive man, collapsed, crying with his dying breath: "Dreadful, dreadful...