Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said King George as he opened the Festival, "can paint the contrast between the calm security of the Victorian age and the hard experience of our own. [Yet] I see this Festival as a symbol of Britain's abiding courage and vitality...
...Groaners for the good old days could bask in the rosy gloom of the Victoria and Albert Museum, where 456 "Masterpieces of Victorian Photography" were displayed. "There is some danger," warned the London Times solemnly, "of certain of these early photographs being overpraised." Praiseworthy or not, they brought back the past on a collodion plate...
...rest of the series, The Later Ego (Egos 8 & 9) is larded with letters from friends and fans, old reviews, quotations from favorite authors. But these are only walk-on bits. The leading "character" is still James Agate, and the role he plays with the most zest is Victorian-conservative-at-bay. From modern art to modern man, he was convinced that the 20th Century was a dubious conspiracy against good sense, good taste, and good James Agate. Wearing the chips on his shoulders like epaulets, he waged a steady duel with his time. "To be perfectly frank, I haven...
...devised an incubator to hatch the three-pound egg. Others quickly took up ostrich raising (some paid native girls to take turns sitting on the eggs). Traders swarmed out to the scattered farms, offering cartloads of oil lamps, stoves and feminine finery in exchange for plumes, fashionable in late Victorian and Edwardian days...
...Kimberley's diamond mines. Wild speculation broke out in land and feathers. Prices flew up to $500 a lb. in 1913, before the inevitable crash. Many an ostrich tycoon went to bed a millionaire and woke up bankrupt. Some of them trekked southward to raise oranges; the gaudy Victorian mansions they had built slowly fell to pieces in a weird jumble of white gables and green cupolas. Max Rose, who came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1890, was one of the few ex-millionaires who stuck with his birds. He scrabbled hard to get enough lucerne (alfalfa...