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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the British wanted to honor the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, famed Victorian philanthropist, they did it with a pun. His memorial fountain in London's bustling Piccadilly Circus is topped by an aluminum winged archer shooting an arrow downward ("burying a shaft"). Popularly, the statue is known as the god of love, Eros. Tradition has it that, while Eros stands in Piccadilly, no Londoner can be arrested for kissing a girl. Last week, if any Londoner felt like kissing in public, he had to watch his step; for Eros was removed-for the duration of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hub's Hub's Hub | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Mabel Thorp Boardman had come back from Berlin, where her uncle was U. S. Minister. Unmarried, she was no longer a Victorian young lady but a Victorian spinster. The Red Cross job was just what she wanted. Imaginative, energetic, with a passion for detail, she got to work with a will. Fifteen years later she was national secretary, has kept the job ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Hungry and Naked | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...remained a Victorian. Tall, with a changeless hat crowning her changeless pompadour, she bears a striking resemblance to Britain's Dowager Queen Mary. When Edward VIII, then visiting Washington as Prince of Wales, was ushered into her presence, he exclaimed, "Good Lord-there's Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Hungry and Naked | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...VICTORIAN IN THE MODERN WORLD-Hufchlns Hapqood- Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonderful Waster | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...young auctioneer named Thomas E. Kirby and partners founded the American Art Association in 1883, were soon holding sales that ran into the millions. Auctioneer Kirby sold such famous Victorian paintings as Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair, which Commodore Vanderbilt bought and gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1922, with borrowed money, Kirby put up the Madison Avenue building. Next year he sold the American Art Association to rich, eccentric Cortlandt Field Bishop for $500,000 and retired, having auctioned $60,000,000 worth of art in 40 years. Founder Kirby died a year later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Empty Galleries | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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