Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victorian gothic, old Memorial Hall stead on the sacred precincts of the Delta, gathering dust and age, but with the exception of examinations NROTC classes, and an occasional performance in Sanders Theater it had seen its best days. It was a tradition but an obsolete structure in the University scene...
...Yorker and Hollywood, has risen steadily in the Star's white-tiled, Gothic pile at 11th and Pennsylvania Avenue ever since patriarchal Theodore W. Noyes, its second editor, hired him as a reporter in 1921. Next month he will move into Noyes's triangular, Victorian top-floor office...
Many readers may have felt, as does Author Lane, that Beatrix Potter-whose pint-sized Tales have become classic portraits of a fast-fading age-possessed "small but authentic genius," but few could have said so to Miss Potter. For she was born and bred in a tradition of Victorian modesty so extreme as to win her a place among English eccentrics...
...lobby of the Manchester Guardian's smoke-grimed Victorian building, a bust by Jacob Epstein glares down on the editorial floor, where a few stubborn oldsters still scribble in longhand amid the clacking typewriters of fresh-faced Oxonians. It is the image of Charles Prestwich Scott, the Guardian's late, greatest editor, who built a provincial Whig organ into English liberalism's bravest voice...
...peeper for the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, clucked at current life & letters generally, but he was not downhearted. "The pendulum always swings wide from one side to another," said he. "The décolleté of the Directoire was followed by the pantalettes of the Victorian era." Had he noticed the latest bathing suits? He never visited the beach. "If they can swim better in them," he hazarded generously, "I suppose they are all right; but if they sink they have themselves to blame...