Word: victorian
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Olympian Ultimatums. In Victorian times, the game of Fathers & Sons was a ruthless affair. Lord Randolph, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1886, was type and exemplar of a caste-the British aristocracy, whose members had pride, privilege, titles to mark them off from lesser men, retinues of servants and the habit of ruling a vast household and an empire. They exacted a fearful price of admission from their heirs; the initiation rites were as painful as and more prolonged than those for an Apache brave. Before the little lordlings could dish it out, they had to learn to take...
...WRONG BOX. Bryan Forbes has a high old time directing Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson, John Mills and Peter tellers in a Victorian spoof of such varied subjects as vast fortunes, star-struck lovers, Bournemouth stranglers venal doctors, missing bodies and orphaned cousins...
Roaring off to sedate Victorian Melbourne, Johnson found half a million people choking the streets. At one point, the President paused to review an honor guard of 57 canine greeters assembled by the Victoria Beagle Society and lifted one-not by the ears-onto the limousine's bubble-top. At another stop, Johnson stepped out for some handshaking, saw a young man with a placard reading L.B.J.-BLOODFINGER. "Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" chided the President. The boy put down his sign...
...moderation, when the vilest words that could be hissed were "She paints." Petite (5 ft. 2½ in.), fluttery, auburn-haired Florence Nightingale Graham was only the daughter of an immigrant Ontario truck farmer, but she intended to be a lady. Borrowing 1) a name from two genteel Victorian books (Elizabeth and Her German Garden and Enoch Arden), 2) the technique of giving "scientific treatments" to customers by massaging on creams and lotions from a previous employer, Eleanor Adair, and 3) $6,000 from a cousin, she set up her first salon, for well-heeled society matrons, in a converted...
Happily, Frost's poetry was finer than his pretenses. Discarding an earlier, florid, neo-Victorian style, he developed a naturalistic technique that he called "the sound of sense," linking the counterpoint of metrical lines with the natural spoken sentences of his friends on the farms of New Hampshire. Because he admired their stoic cheerfulness, he adopted this form of speech himself, dropping the careful diction that his educated parents taught...