Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's Government, when challenged by a Germany hungry to regain colonies now under the British flag, to shilly-shally evasively as the Prime Minister has done, bleating that his Cabinet "has not considered this matter." It was Conservative last week, and rousingly Conservative in a robust Victorian sense, when more than 1,000 of the 1,400 Margate Conference delegates leaped to their feet brandishing agenda papers like swords and shouted in unison: "What we have we hold! We hold! WE HOLD!" This Tory spectacle came just before the Conference voted with virtual unanimity the strongest possible resolution...
...Anarchists outstanding in fact if not in title in Barcelona are Buenaventura Durruti and Juan Garcia Oliver, both newly skyrocketed to fame from the looms of Barcelona textile plants. These smooth-shaven, intensely modern young men sufficiently dispose of the Victorian idea that Anarchism is an affair of terrifying beards. As a matter of fact, "The Father of Anarchism," the late great Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who died in 1865 had only a "Newgate Frill" (fringe of whiskers) around his placid countenance. The last of the internationally great Anarchist thinkers, Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin, who was the perfect prototype of "Bearded...
...Empire from 1895 until his paralytic stroke in 1906. Dying in July, 1914. he bequeathed to British politics two arch-conservative sons. Old Joe, scion of masters of the Cordwainers' Company,* maltsters, brewers, cheesemongers and ironmongers, was the first middle-class Englishman to move with arrogant authority among Victorian England's ruling class. Symbols of his good opinion of himself were the monocle in his cold, irritable eye, the invariable orchid in his buttonhole. He wrecked two parties to which he belonged, Gladstone's and Balfour's, and each time emerged greater than before. His platform...
...could have been a statesman in those days. Today, we have none of us, either in business or politics, one minute in which to think. Disraeli and Gladstone could have gone away on a long holiday and no one would have taken the slightest notice." Actually these great Victorian Prime Ministers had no such official country residence to which they could slip away as have their 20th Century successors...
Stately Queen Mary attended a function of state last week for the first time since the death of King George. Her eldest son had just reached the age of 42. He celebrated by creating Queen Mary a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order founded in 1896 by Queen Victoria. Her Majesty received this decoration from His Majesty for her "personal services to the reigning sovereign...