Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Queen Victoria. For most well-born Victorians, says Ponsonby, the Victorian era was a "serene, unhurried existence." For the old Queen's courtiers, it was a rat race. Protocol ruled, for example, that when the Queen took an airing in her pony chair she must meet nobody on the way, and as nobody in the household could foretell what route she intended to take, her stately advance over the royal gravel was marked by the incessant scuttling of courtiers racing for cover...
Wallace Harrison was born on Sept. 28, 1895 in a small frame house in the center of Worcester, Mass., where his father was superintendent of a local ironworks. Young Wally Harrison saw the automobiles fill up Main Street, saw the old Victorian houses taken over by morticians and auto showrooms...
Beware, My Lovely (Filmakers; RKO Radio) casts Robert Ryan as a most unhandy man about the house. A psychopathic killer who has just polished off his latest victim. Ryan is hired by World War I Widow Ida Lupino to do some odd jobs in her small-town Victorian home. Before long, Ryan, who is given to mental blackouts and odd fits of anger, has locked all the doors from the inside, ripped the phone from the wall and is scaring Widow Lupino half to death with his menacing attitude...
When the London papers of 1891 ran their obituaries on Charles Samuel Keene, only a few connoisseurs marked the passing of a fine Victorian artist. The public knew him mainly as a cartoonist for Punch; critics in general, when they thought of him at all, thought of him as an everyday draftsman. Last week, half a century after his death, Britain's Arts Council exhibited nearly 100 of Charles Keene's original drawings, and. the hurrahs shook the rafters...
Mother & Father. Three months after Fine moved into the 27-room, heavily Victorian governor's mansion on Harrisburg's Front Street, personal tragedy shook his life. His wife, whom he had married in 1939 (she was 19 years his junior), died of brain cancer. Fine moved out of the mansion, and went to live at the governor's summer residence at Indiantown Gap. Mrs. Fine's brother and his wife came to keep house for the governor and help him look after his two sons, Jack, now 11, and Donald, 9. Fine is deeply devoted...