Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Red Cross, who has watched the membership grow from 300 to some 30,000,000, retired (after 44 years) last week, received a Distinguished Service Medal (first one to be awarded by the Red Cross) and a citation from President Roosevelt for being the "inspirer" of the organization. Victorian Miss Boardman, one of Washington's top society hostesses, who looks amazingly like Great Britain's Queen Mary,* planned to write her memoirs...
...viceregal audience for India's princes in New Delhi this year, though all other preparations for it had been made. In the narendra Mandal (Chamber of Princes) the two high-backed plush thrones (for the Viceroy and his wife) had been dusted off. The red velvet Victorian armchairs (for India's princes) were all in place. The heavy Mogul tapestries had been hung from the high marble walls. The thick red carpet had been duly swept. India's princely rulers, each entitled to his salute of guns, should soon stalk in, stiff with brocade and glittering with...
...Stettinius era in U.S. Steel was a revolutionary period, although Stettinius himself played only a minor part in the revolution. One of his main contributions was to substitute stainless-steel streamlining for the gas-jetted, Victorian corridors of the U.S. Steel headquarters at 71 Broadway. But Little Stet surprised oldtimers when he fought off a 1938 proposal that U.S. Steel cut wages to offset a drop in the price of steel. In a fireside chat, Franklin Roosevelt digressed to congratulate Big Steel on its "statesmanship." And Harry Hopkins, in his steady progress in U.S. society, had met and liked...
...scene was London's solemnly hideous Albert Hall. For the observance of U.S. Thanksgiving Day, its dark Victorian interior was blanketed with American flags, and the flags of all 48 states. A portrait of Lincoln hung from the proscenium; a spotlight played on an American eagle...
Then the wheel spun round again, and the darling of the Victorians began coming back into favor. "We may not admire his aims," admitted Poet T. S. Eliot in 1930, "but In Memoriam is great poetry." Now W. H. Auden (The Orators, For the Time Being), most influential of the younger poets, has made a selection of 60 poems from the mass of Tennyson's works, reintroduced them with a sharply critical but respectful preface. Tennyson, says Auden, was really rather stupid, but he had "the finest ear, perhaps, of any English poet." In addition, unlike many of his successors...