Word: edwardian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Edwardian Reformation", Professor Merriman, Harvard...
...Edwardian. This son, Nicholas, married a spirited girl who brought to Babyon Court a virile zest for life, but lost it in the murky shadows of the portrait gallery. Frightened by the black sneer of Hariot and Isabella, she rushed from the gallery, fell stumbling down the broad staircase, and lost her unborn child. She never had another, for Nicholas, last of the Babyons, was old and bitter and resigned, given to eerie moods...
Last week this most notorious of Queen Victoria's grandchildren made a gesture somewhat Edwardian in its expansiveness; he expended a sum estimated at 40,000 florins ($16,000) upon the celebration of his 67th birthday; he received 300 telegrams of congratulation...
...floor of the House of Commons, which he not so many years ago left for the House of Lords. His career is not particularly interesting for the simple reason that Long is not a particularly interesting man; but his incidental descriptions of human society during the Victorian and Edwardian ages are full of point and show with remarkable clarity the recent growth of democracy in Britain...