Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon his death, the Princess ("bowed with grief in her first youth" according to Victorian journalists) summoned all her self possession and was married, 18 months later, to her late fiance's brother, who became George V. Did Her Majesty recall last week the notoriously blameless life of the late Duke of Clarence whose official biographer, J. Edmund Vincent, could find nothing worse to say of him than that at Cambridge he "went at shocking hours...
Thus wrote Captain Peter Emmanuel Wright, onetime assistant secretary to the Allied Supreme War Council in his recently published book, Portraits and Criticisms. The Right Honorable Herbert John Gladstone, first Viscount Gladstone, son of the late Victorian Liberal Premier, at once denounced his father's abuser to the secretary of the Bath Club, of which both Captain and Viscount were members. Lord Gladstone wrote to the secretary: "Captain Wright is a foul fellow! A liar, a coward and a fool...
...itself; when the Professor ends his lectures on Sheridan, he casts a long glance forward to 1865 and Robertson, dons his seven-league critical boots, and stamps his way quickly through the poetic drama and the Shakesperian revivals, which alone illuminate the "void, or chaos, of Georgian and early Victorian drama," leaving in his train disparagement and apology until he comes to the renaissance of realism in the work of Robertson and the Bancrofts, when he smiles again, and the class stops cutting...
...approval of Lord Roberts and in 1909 paid a visit to Edward VII at Balmoral. His enthusiasm carried the old King away, and when the veteran left Balmoral he carried not only the royal approval but a Knighthood and the Star of a Knight Commander of the Victorian Order for himself. Three years later there were 400,000 Boy Scouts in England...
Londoners of a Victorian cast of mind peeped cautiously last week into a new book, The Need for Eugenic Reform, by Major Leonard Darwin. They had not yet recovered from The Origin of Species by the Major's late father, Charles Darwin. Their horridest fears were stirred when they discovered that the "eugenic reform" demanded by the major is a law penalizing individuals who bring into the world a greater number of children than their income will permit them to support decently...