Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they could "cut coupons and eat bonbons with equal relish." Off the parlor was a room with scissors, threaded needles, hairpins, violet water, lavender salts, scented soaps. This leisurely atmosphere paid off in accounts from prim matrons and black-bonneted dowagers. Women still flock to the bank's Victorian quarters with their paneling, candelabra and the fireplace whose log fire glows cheerily in winter...
...feet beneath the Victorian grotesqueness of Memorial Hall lies a mass of sleek, modern offices that may soon become an Activities Center for University students...
...Victorian England produced fuzzy, sentimental painting, and a lot of sharp and funny drawing. The drawing has lasted better. Three of her ace draftsmen, George Cruikshank, Richard Doyle and Sir John Tenniel, are the subjects of three books published last week in England (by Art & Technics Ltd.). U.S. readers, familiar with only one string of each artist's bow (like Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland), will find the drawings a wonderland of surprises...
...rate out of last week's half-Ways and Means, Family Album, Red Peppers (this week: Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak, Shadow Play). Ways and Means, telling about a stony-broke but determinedly gay couple visiting in a stylish Riviera villa, and Family Album, in which a Victorian family drink themselves out of mourning Papa's death into welcoming it, had always seemed pretty trivial. But last week they also seemed pretty trashy, and not much fun. Only Red Peppers, an onstage-backstage-onstage chronicle of a pair of bickering, third-rate British hoofers, retained any real...
Breakers Ahead. The Times, founded by Printer John Walter in 1785 to help keep his printing presses busy, in 1884 was "a stately East Indiaman of a newspaper, sailing under a still almost cloudless Victorian sky." But the glass was dropping: circulation was down to a puny 48,000. The barnacle-crusted Times was hopelessly old-fashioned for an age of steam...