Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victorian England, 50 years ago, she had been better known as Florence May-brick. Convicted of poisoning her husband, she had been the principal in a mystery which intrigued nearly half the world...
Saratoga, danced in Manhattan by Leonide Massine's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, was Muscovite Americana, less pretentious than the Russians' earlier Union Pacific and Ghost Town. Jockeys and girls in hoop skirts footed it among the Victorian curlicues of New York's spa, while two males vied for the favors of svelte Alexandra Danilova. Weinberger's tripping score afforded not only one authentic polka, but many a polka-dotted measure. No fugue...
Like U.S. artists in general, to whom they have a strong family resemblance, the Australians were short on abstractions and surrealist nightmares, showed a preference for plain pictures of the barren mountains, weedy gum trees, drab sheep barns and sprawling Victorian mansions of their native landscape. Like U.S. artists they were good water-colorists. Like U.S. Middle and Far Western artists of a generation ago, the Australians had learned most of their tricks from the 19th-Century French Barbizon landscapists, showed that they had been too busy pioneering to develop a distinct tradition of their own. The Australia they painted...
...greatest when whispered by ladies in ruffled hoop-skirts to frock-coated gentlemen seated next to them in their box-seats. Like those of his fellow-spirit, Victor Herbert, his opera stories are now watery wine to a world once intoxicated by the theme of gay, romantic love bursting Victorian bonds. But despite all of this and much more which could be added from the pens of countless critics who have assigned the cliches of sentimental romanticism to deadest limbo, not a year of the new age passes without a half-dozen revivals of the old. And if Sigmund Romberg...
Britons liked little Bertie. Sometimes on their progresses, the royal family would be "almost mobbed by the Queen's subjects . . . those exuberant outcasts-the early Victorian poor." But as he grew up, Bertie did not seem very bright. His ponderous Teutonic father had outlined for him a crushing program for royal studies. Tutors came & went. Bertie remained unchanged...