Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hinton circle. Its late founder, James Hinton, had been a blend of crackpot and sexpot. Under the doctrine of "service," Hinton preached polygamy and practiced promiscuity among lonely women and errant wives. High-minded Havelock saw in this only a band of free spirits snapping the moral chains of Victorian bondage. He adopted the Hinton motto, Fay ce que vouldras (Do What Thou Wilt) as his own. As one of Ellis' women friends subsequently pointed out, it was a perfectly innocuous creed for him, since Havelock was tempted to do so little. The women who entered Ellis' life...
...Stephanie's blunt table knives, hacked and ripped her body, and ended the sadistic orgy, which police claim must have lasted at least 45 minutes, by cutting off her head. He escaped by the window, but for some reason decided to go back into the dun-colored. Victorian building. In a utility room he came upon 21-year-old Margaret Brown, ironing some clothes, swung at her with a bagful of stones. When Margaret screamed, he fled...
...Victorian Gothic corridors of London's Royal Courts of Justice last week, the well-dressed crowd pushed, shoved, and asked attendants: "Which way to the duchess? Which way to the countess?'' Of two aristocratic divorce cases being heard at the same time, many of the crowd were most interested in the 46-year-old Countess of Shrewsbury, whose husband the earl had sued her-and who in turn had sued her husband-for divorce on grounds of adultery. The scandal had fed the tabloids for weeks, but the real jolt in the case turned...