Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chelsea figurines, old Crown Derby dinner services, Georgian silver, Oriental table screens, crystal candelabra, needlepoint armchairs, Elizabethan joint-stools, satinwood bedsteads, Jacobean armchairs, cut-glass fingerbowls, Flemish oak chests, potted palms, tooled leather wastebaskets and bronze andirons, they saw enough to stock all the dealers in Manhattan. Of the great art which legend maintained was "Inisfada's" glory, they saw little. Artistically respectable by most current standards was the garden-sculpture of Malvina Hoffman, auctioned off in situ among the rose bushes. For the rest, it appeared that the Bradys, in their assiduous years of collecting, had amassed...
...voice of William Shakespeare rang out twice last week in the high courts of two States as that widely informed Elizabethan's opinion was cited in a pair of widely different cases. In Indiana, the Bard's side won. In New York it lost...
Fire Over England (London Films), not to be confused with Wings Over Europe, Wings Over Ethiopia, Storm Over the Andes, Storm Over Asia, Thunder Over Mexico and Head Over Heels in Love (TIME, Feb. 22), is Elizabethan sword & cloak drama, showing how the Spanish Armada was frustrated by young Michael Ingolby (Laurence Olivier) while Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson) was feeding porridge to doddering Lord Burleigh (Morton Selten). In a hand-to-hand combat between Michael Ingolby and Michael Strogoff, the correct odds would be even money. In addition to burning the Armada with the aid of seven men in rowboats...
...Vulgate formed a bridge into the Latin. Wycliffe, Tyndale, and Coverdale had blazed the English trail. And the forty seven scholars, the most learned that England could boast, carried in them the spirit of the age. It was the age "of Shakespeare's London and the ships of the Elizabethan voyagers-- of men whose language was as vivid and as virile as their lives." Small wonder that their efforts came to fruit in "the noblest monument of English prose...
...House plays is the fact that no House, except Eliot, has set a rigid precedant. The various organizations, the first of which was initiated by Tutors Matthiessen and Spencer in the first year of Eliot House's existence, like to experiment with works of different periods, such as Elizabethan, Restoration, and even modern plays. They tend to favor the sock over the buskin in an effort to be anything but professional...