Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More Love." Florence was 24 before the voices told her exactly what she must do, and 33 before she left her parents to do it. In the meantime, she seemed to live the typical life of a girl born in upper-class Victorian society. Her father was a rich dilettante, her mother a society figure. Florence, a slight, willowy girl with chestnut hair, sparkled at parties and balls, traveled on the Continent. She had a rush of eligible suitors, including young Richard Monckton Milnes, socialite, poet and philanthropist...
...ushers in yet another D'Oyly Carte visit to Broadway. In a sense, it is always the same visit, as full of tradition and ritual as though the visiting players were visiting royalty. It even seems to fetch the same audiences of devotees. The extravaganzas that once turned Victorian sanity upside down today seem one of the few things still on their feet. Titipu still flourishes, Barataria still stands...
...eagerness to read everything, from the hearts of celery to the mind of God, as well as in the gingerbread elaborations of his style, Author Blackwood is more a Victorian than a modern. Yet, far more than most Victorians, Blackwood has a fervor for the inhuman, subhuman, or superhuman, and a distaste for the world of men. The story in which Black wood expresses his keenest distaste for actual life is perhaps his most carefully composed one, The Lost Valley. Twin brothers, who have lived only for each other for 35 years, find themselves in love with the same woman...
...office Christmas party [TIME, Dec. 25] when "in came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile." There isn't a single moral problem that the office party at Yuletide raises that won't be solved if the wives insist upon inviting themselves . . . At least this is the Victorian suggestion I am submitting to my Sunday flock of a thousand...
...Queen and her handsome surroundings proves an excellent foil for the incongruous invasion of Windsor Castle by a cockney ragamuffin (Andrew Ray), who absently spews a trail of plum pits as he wanders bug-eyed through the imposing halls and chambers. The picture also unbends enough to twit Victorian manners & morals...