Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington's most successful criminal lawyers, she yearned for a suburban home in fashionable Chevy Chase, Md. But Robert Ingersoll Miller, 67, onetime law partner of the late Vice President Charles Curtis, good friend of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, preferred to stay in the drab Victorian brown-brick house on shabby 8th Street. Friends advised Mrs. Miller to take her emotional problems to a good psychiatrist...
...Washington institution. Born in Northfield, Vt., he started his Washington newspaper career in 1909, worked decades as a newspaperman before shifting to a job with NRA and on to the White House. A kindly, gregarious, infallibly obliging gentleman of the old school, Bill Hassett rather likes being called a Victorian. He is deeply versed in English and American history and literature, lives in comfortably Victorian bachelor diggings on Pennsylvania Avenue, only five blocks from the White House...
Columbia University New York City > For failing to spot this classic of Victorian humor, TIME blushes from the ears...
...October of 1870 the Reverend Phillips Brooks laid the cornerstone of this most ambitious building ever attempted by the University. It was to be an immense Victorian Gothic pile, erected as memorial to "those who fought and died to preserve the Union." "The Delta," a triangular shaped piece of the student as training grounds the war, was selected as a festive gathering of Harvard's sons the splendid dedication service took place. Oliver Wendell Holmes was there. He had written a stirring dedication hymn for the occasion. In eloquent verses he expressed the hopes of its builders...
...cheers. The difference was that he touched his hat to a hero named Martin Tupper who shouted, "Waterloo! Waterloo!" It was the 17th anniversary of the day Wellington and Blücher led the armies that saved the Empire, Europe, and the civilization that flowered in the long Victorian peace...