Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over furnished Victorian parlor, adds to the realism, but as I've said, much of this support is unnecessary. The Heiress depends upon good acting, and Miss Hills and most of the cast supply it in abundance...
Model 1920 or just off the assembly line, it is a spindly Victorian-looking machine with a rubber bulb horn and a wheezy engine. Its thin-spoked front wheels, poking forward like the forelegs of a praying mantis, can-by police stipulation-negotiate a U-turn in a 25-ft. lane. Up front sits the cabbie, exposed on each side to spring's deluge and winter's blasts, separated from his passenger by half an inch of plate glass and half a century of tradition. "Won't do to get too close to the passenger," explained...
Edith Evans, who has played Lady Bracknell on the stage, is magnificently victorian. Gaudily-gowned and rouged, Dame Evans is an awe-inspiring matriarch who distrusts everything but the "solid quality" of money. Screeching and bellowing, she commands both the characters and the film with the delicacy of a moose...
...rolled on until it was too late to vote that day: Bob Taft had announced that he didn't want a vote after 5 p.m. because he had to be home at 5:30 for a tea in honor of Mamie Eisenhower. At the Tafts' red brick Victorian house in Georgetown, men who had been snarling at one another over the Bohlen case met, chatted and sipped. Everything was as sweet as California port until one of the guests, American-turned-Briton Nancy Astor, sidled up to Joe McCarthy. Said razor-tongued Lady Astor, eying...
...Soon as Weaned." Augustus Hare, author of Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire, Walks in Rome, and other popular Victorian travel books, was an unwanted child. When his godmother asked to adopt him, his delighted mother wrote back: "How very kind of you. Yes, certainly the baby shall be sent as soon as it is weaned; if anyone else would like one, would you kindly remember that we have others?" With "two little white nightshirts and a red coral necklace," Baby Augustus was packed off to his new home. His godmother was a religious fanatic who felt that happiness was next...