Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen Victoria had herself drugged with chloroform to soothe the labor of bearing Prince Leopold in 1853, and Princess Beatrice in 1857. Her gestures popularized the uses of chloroform, ether and nitrous oxide as anesthetics. Dr. John Snow (1813-58) who induced Queen Victoria to take the chloroform, had developed methods of administering anesthetics throughout an entire operation. For that the anesthetists last week saluted his memory...
...large playing blocks are devised not to startle children, but to put them at their ease; headlines modelled in their likeness do not quicken mental inertia, but play upon it in vast and obvious fashion. By all means let us have sensational journalism; sensational as the Irish journalism of Victoria's time was sensational, for by its aid we may stimulate the populace, if not to thought, at least to passion. But the tedious recital of detail, in type however large, can only distract us from the whole; we cannot at one time court irrelevance and desire a conclusion...
...Decameronish deception of Wu the Elder by his wicked wife and the bawdy old woman; the Tattooed Priest, a kind of Friar Tuck of the outlaws; the robbers' rescue of the youth about to be executed. Though some of the incidents would never have passed Queen Victoria (in the 18th Century Shui Hu Chuan was banned in China as "licentious") they are narrated always with polite decency...
...senility and the admirable repression of his public utterance simply leave one wondering. There is, of course, the very strong possibility that he does not think of Hitler at all, that extreme age has so relaxed the fibers of his mind as in the case of the very late Victoria, that nothing but temperament remains. Admittedly this is not the romantic, or popular, view. The contemporary offshoots of Houston Stewart Chamberlain like to conjure him up as a natural Nazi, a nationalist and illiberal to the linger tips, an exponent of all the fireeating nonsense conventionally associated with the Prussian...
Double Door (by Elizabeth McFadden; Potter & Haight, producers). Victoria Van Bret (Mary Morris, malevolent Abbie in Desire Under the Elms}, a tyrannous New York aristocrat of the celluloid collar era, dominates her half-brother Rip and her younger sister Caroline with an insane despotism. When Anne Darrow (Aleta Freel of Both Your Houses}, Rip's nurse during an attack of pneumonia, is about to marry the Van Bret scion, Victoria forbids organ music, refuses to attend ' the ceremony, locks up the wedding presents and denies the bride the Van Bret pearls which are by will...