Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly 500 people a day swarmed through the exhibition, which was already turning out to be the most popular in Gump's 91-year history. The first pictures to go were an 18th Century engraving of two cupids making a prim stab at golf, and four Victorian prints celebrating croquet, bathing, archery and rowing. Beamed Impresario Gump: "We've taken sporting art out of the box seats and moved it into the bleachers...
...since then. Harvard's Dr. John H. Conover backed Dr. Zoch. He said that a 100-year record kept at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory and at nearby Milton Centre, Mass., showed a 3° increase. Dr. Conover had gone to the trouble of finding the early Victorian thermometer used in 1849 and checking it against modern instruments, made allowances for differences. In further support of his position he pointed out that the Blue Hill records were made in a large state park well outside Boston. So they were immune to the heating effect attributed to great modern cities...
...Disengaged" is a typical Victorian period piece. The main action takes place in a suburban home outside of London. Here a group of scheming characters seek to force a military here, Captain Prime, into marrying Blandina Wigmore, a dull girl who is being pushed forward by her mother. Unfortunately, the captain is much more interested in sensuous Mrs. Jasper, a beautiful young widow...
Charles Dickens and Early Victorian England, by Robin Cruikshank. Informal chapters on the sturdy characters and irritating characteristics of Queen Victoria's energetic subjects (TIME, March...
Charles Dickens and Early Victorian England, by Robin Cruikshank. Informal chapters on the sturdy characters and irritating characteristics of Queen Victoria's energetic subjects (TIME, March...