Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life, tall, soft-voiced Victorian Actress Ada Rehan had been a discreet lady...
...that the children of my father's brain were much more real to him at times than we were." Over his mental offspring, Dickens suffered all the joys and torments of family life. He wrote daily, rigorously, from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon. No Victorian reader of Dickens' works ever wept so copiously over them as Dickens himself. "I have had a good cry," he once wrote to Forster. "I am worn to death. I was obliged to lock myself in when I finished yesterday, for my face was swollen to twice its proper...
...meagre plot opens in a Scandinavian version of North Conway. From there it follows the amorous adventures of beautiful Princess Martha through Victorian salon, Royal Palace, and Civic Opera house, as she decides between her secret love from the snow country and her handsome blue-blooded husband...
...London last week a modest Scotsman tucked away the symbol of his monarch's deepest gratitude: the Knight Commander's cross of the Royal Victorian Order. Then he went back to work on his ponderous, four-volume Textbook of Ophthalmology...
Oscar Wilde, who tried to set quite a few fashions himself, might have been amused to know that last week Moscow took the same disapproving view of him and his works as his most disapproving Victorian contemporaries ever did. For stooping to put on a brilliant performance of his entertaining An Ideal Husband, the famed Moscow Art Theater shivered under simultaneous critical broadsides from the 16-inch guns of Izvestia and Pravda...