Word: dickensian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when & if he should set foot in England. Her charge: The Count, whom she is trying to divorce in Denmark, had threatened her with bodily harm. The Count, in Paris, ordered his luggage packed, took train and boat to London. Scotland Yard officials politely whisked him to famed old Dickensian Bow Street Police Court, where his lawyer, Norman Birkett, who got the Duchess of Windsor her divorce from Mr. Simpson, asked to have the case postponed. Agreeing, the Chief Magistrate stipulated that: The Count must: 1) not try to see his wife; 2) refrain from toting a gun; 3) post...
...With publication last month of My Son, My Son!, plain English readers were pleased as they had not been since J. B. Priestley unfolded from his cocoon. My Son, My Son! is a sad story. But with its generous length (649 pages), plot and number of characters, its easy. Dickensian narrative, a fortifying moral, the story carries its own self-comforting device- not unlike the jet of oil that plays on high-speed emery wheels to prevent tools losing their temper...
...rival, Sketch, the Toiler combined fiction and fun in its Christmas annual. Both magazines had colored centre spreads, Tatter's by Comic Artist Henry Mayo Bateman, who contributed "The Gigolo Who Refused to Dance"; Sketch's by the late Sporting Artist Cecil Aldin who drew a Dickensian "Christmas Coach Crossing Marlborough Downs." With art lovers, Sketch went one up by giving away a colored insert of "Ballet" by Dame Laura Knight, A. R. A. The London Sphere's Christmas annual featured the Victoria & Albert Museum's wax "Nativity," while the Illustrated London News had 27 color...
...charge of the acting will be the expert Dickensian director, Francis J. Whitfield IG., while Walter E. Teschan '37 will have the task of making students look like biddies. Members of the committee in charge of production are: Stephen Greene '38, Philip S. Haring '37, John S. Kelly '37, and Teschan...
...Maurois, "Who hasn't?" He is sorry for Mrs. Dickens, believes that "to be a novelist's wife is truly dreadful," but thinks much should be left unsaid on both sides. As to Dickens' solacing himself with an actress, he thinks that affair "remained platonic and Dickensian-the love for the sylph." Maurois would prefer to draw more of a veil than even Dickens did over the whole business. "In any case, does it matter...