Word: victorianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Particularly unusual for Kokoschka are the small naturalistic color lithographs designed as post cards for the Vienna Werkstatte in 1907 and typical of the art nouveau a decorative style popular in the late Victorian...
Traffic rolls in constant cacophony through gullylike streets between stolid Victorian houses of commerce. In the great harbor, junks with patched sails pick their way among British and U.S. warships, freighters and tankers of a score or more of flags. From the Peak, the British name for the range of hills on Hong Kong Island, houses of the rich and the merely prosperous give grace to a prospect that leads many a world traveler to argue that Hong Kong surpasses Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, or San Francisco as the world's most beautiful seaport. Beneath the Peak stand perhaps...
...coward by John Dos Passos for censoring his Three Soldiers before publishing it. Training a jaundiced eye on postwar bestsellers, Doran once said: "Can't say I think much of 'em. Trashy, dirty stuff ... No spiritual force, no moral fiber. Great Scott, I'm no Victorian prude. But a publisher has to draw the line somewhere...
Most of Broadway's brightest names turned out in regiment strength at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to hail Theater Grandame Helen Hayes, 55, on the soth anniversary of her first stage appearance. In the grand finale, while Actress Hayes listened with proud Victorian regality, everybody on stage serenaded her with an affectionate rendering of The Way You Look Tonight...
...wound up playing to miners in Nevada, and even worse, in the Australian goldfields. It was there, at last, that someone had the common sense to get on to the horsewhip dodge (which was the Victorian form of the modern gossip queen's "denial" of a "romance"). Lola was flailing away as usual at the local editor, a coarse colonial called Seekamp, when he hit her right back. It discouraged...