Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boudoirs of Victorian ladies. See BUSINESS, The Diplomats...
...Porter, was an irresistible tearjerker that drenched the pillows of grandma's generation and added to the language a new word for the sort of softheaded optimist who can see no evil, especially in the mirror, and who hysterically insists on confusing goo with good. The story distilled Victorian sentiment to its treacly essence, and readers of all ages lapped it up. More than a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, and by 1920 the book had been made into a Broadway hit and a Hollywood movie starring Mary Pickford. Forty years later, with his infallible instinct for what...
...their honeymoon, a picture was going the rounds, making it seem that Tony had already been married to himself, about 70 years ago, and had a child, his spit and image. In fact, it was a trick photograph that Armstrong-Jones, posing as all three members of a proper Victorian family, had sent out as a Christmas card in 1954. All gags aside, irrepressible Margaret and Tony announced last week that they will honeymoon in the Caribbean on the royal yacht Britannia, which will sail a few hours after their wedding in Westminster Abbey...
...print to 88 minutes of celluloid. Sellers plays the hero of the piece, a timid soul with a face as blank as a manila folder, who has lived without women, whisky, cigarettes, or even regrets, and has worked for 35 somnolent years as a bookkeeper in the dingy Victorian offices of a dyed-in-the-wool conservative company of tweed merchants...
...least Victorian of all Victorian authors, Oscar Wilde, observed in his novel, Picture of Dorian Gray: "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." He would have had no cause for complaint last week in England, where segments of his life were being filmed in two different movie studios. At Elstree Studios, Producer Irving Allen, shooting The Trials of Oscar Wilde, threatened a court action to stop the work of Director Gregory Ratoff, whose production is succinctly titled Oscar Wilde. Then Allen told the London press...