Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zita was a Victorian beauty who married a solid Englishman, a gentleman though a banker. He buried her in the country, never thought about her amusement. As mutely Victorian as he, she was unhappy but would not have admitted it. When business settled them in Paris, life began to look up for Zita. She had her portrait painted, met a young French poet who fell Gallically in love with her. At the last minute their elopement fell through; Zita was too blooded a Victorian. Years later they met again, but the poet was no longer a temptation. Instead, Zita fell...
...certain 'saeva indignatio'--the indignation of the true social satirist--is in this definition: "One of the few lines left can be drawn between women who can be bought by the advertisers or not." "The Victorian Peeresses would have rather sold themselves in private," Mr. Leslie informs us, "than given their faces away with a box of cream." O tempera! O mores...
...book which will be unfamiliar to American readers, the personalities of English social and political life, the peculiar institutions of England, in general it may be said that "The Passing Chapter" is a book for everybody, like E. F. Benson's "As We Are" and Dr. Wingfield-Stratford's "Victorian Aftermath...
...rest of the cast as well as the atmosphere of the picture conters around him. It is fortunate, for the players are unable to come up to this standard. Norma Shearer lends sentiment and charm to the portrayal of Elizabeth Barrett, which adapts itself rather well to the mid-Victorian era, but as usual her emotions are more shimmering than deep...
Although such a suggestion has in these days a quaint Victorian ring, there is possibly a question of courtesy as well as of competence. Professors do not as a rule refer publicly to CRIMSON editors or other students by name as slovenly and illiterate, whatever their opinion. Their restraint in such matters is inherent in the code of equality and polite intercourse that has superseded the older pedagogical autocracy. If undergraduates appreciate this newer spirit of fraternity and informality there is an obligation to reciprocate. But perhaps they would find such a course dull and uninteresting. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin...