Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cape Town's Victorian Parliament building, Malan's noisy Nationalists shouted for legislation to overrule the court, which had declared one of Malan's Jim Crow laws unconstitutional. The opposition vowed to defend the court, if necessary by force. "You are breakers of the law," cried Opposition Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss. "You will lead the country to revolution and anarchy...
Foreign students from all over Greater Boston will migrate to Memorial Hall tomorrow evening for the annual spring "Fun Fair" sponsored by the International Student Association. The gloomy Victorian interior will be covered over with gaudy travel posters to dispell the hall's somber atmosphere and provide the proper international flavor...
...owns so much real estate that it takes all his time to manage it. But, until a few days ago, not even his close friends knew what Bachelor Cooper has been doing a good many quiet mornings and nights in the attic office in his big, late-Victorian house. For eleven years, Neighbor Cooper has been writing a novel...
When Jude the Obscure appeared, the Victorian public howled with stuck prudishness. "Jude the Obscene," cried one reviewer. The Bishop of Wakefield publicly burned his copy-only, snapped Hardy, because he could not burn the author. But Hardy was hurt more than he admitted. Even before Jude, he had written in his journal: "If this sort of thing continues, no more novel-writing...
...Bartholomew Wyngate stood in the pulpit, outwardly poised, looking at the comfortable, wealthy members of his Brooklyn Heights congregation. They loved and admired him as a good preacher and model citizen. They had no more idea than Pastor Wyngate in that year, 1906, how many of the old Victorian certainties were crumbling. As he intoned his text, "I am the way, the truth, and the life," they settled back for a sermon that would be solid but undisturbing...