Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What English constables call their "truncheons" became clubs with a vengeance last week as jobless men were beaten back and down in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Croydon, Westham and North Shields by what Victorian novelists used to call "the arm of the law in blue...
...alia Vittorio Emmamiele} and his stiletto was the kind of man Gould, the unscrupulous railway pirate, could understand. Before long he was Gould's "secretary" (armed bodyguard), finally a full fledged Gould partner-and then how the money rolled in! He married, built a great rambling mid-Victorian palazzo at Riverdale-on-Hudson known as "Elmhurst." This he crammed from cellar to garret with costly knicknacks. There were gold plated bathtubs, tables of green malachite, huge bronze angels in the hall clutching armfuls of electric bulbs; paintings, tapestries, cabinets of jade and precious stones...
Once more the Nipponese come trooping out of Titipu; the Land of the Rising Sun goes Topsy-Turvy, and Victorian England "trips in Liberty silks." It is a show done to the Mikado's taste, with all the pace and spirit that one could wish...
Number of words in the Lytton Report: 100,000. Eminently readable three-decker novels of twice that length used to be tossed off with ease by Lord Lytton's grandfather, famed Victorian Novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Such tossing is in the Lytton blood. The Report, as the London Times promptly declared last week, is "an admirable and exhaustive survey, compiled with the literary distinction traditional in the family of the Chairman...
Cinema. Pensive Anatoly Lunacharsky, onetime Commissar of Education, wrote and his once beauteous wife acted in a thoroughly sentimental, Mid-Victorian confection now delighting All the Russias...