Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Captain Jane Chalmers and her teammates brought home the Victorian Coffee Urn from their own invitational regatta held last Sunday in the Charles River Basin. It was won last year by M.I.T...
Such comments, however hyperbolic, are apparently well deserved. Last week, as Britain's Labor Party gathered amid the fading Victorian splendors of the North Seaside resort of Scarborough, Prime Minister Wilson turned what might have been a repudiation of his policies into a rousing personal endorsement. Harold Wilson may not be invincible, but he is certainly inventive. Few British Prime Ministers have man aged to make so many problems seem like golden opportunities...
...figures and an immodest one for braggadocio into a youthful career as a "financial ad viser" to showfolk. At 25, he landed a bookkeeping job with Max Factor when the U.S. cosmetics maker entered the British market. In twelve years, Mat chan 1) helped wash away the prewar Victorian notion that lipstick was not for English ladies, and 2) became the company's European general manager...
...DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. A skillful biography of the fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along...
...Mother's House is a modern Gothic tale of innocence and evil that takes place in a penumbral pile of Victorian architecture somewhere in a London suburb. In her darkened bedroom lies Mother, mortally ill, the heart and guiding hand of seven boys and girls ranging in age from three to 16. The film begins at "Mothertime," the family's daily sunset gathering around her big brass bed for Bible reading and counseling. As the children arrive, Mother dies...