Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yard a woman, be she young, middle-aged, or old and wrinkled, the cry went forth "Heads Out!" and windows were flung up as other students took up the shout. With the coming of the Gibson girl to the "Annex"--in other words Radcliffe--and the end of the Victorian age, the number of female figures in the Yard increased so much that this custom became impractical.. It wanted for several years; and then came Rinehart to replace it altogether. Imagine the situation today had the tradition been maintained; the Yard would be a spot of incessant uproar...
...began his career studying medicine, a profession from which he retired in 1882 at the age of 38. He had, too, been brought up in what is called the "old school": he went to Eton with half the Victorian aristocracy and then to Oxford with the other half. In other words, he "belonged"-a saying that implies equality within the hallowed circle of the blue blooded...
...usual, Mrs. Baldwin hovered in her husband's background. She seems the "perfect wife" of Mid-Victorian days, submerging her personality in that of "my dearest husband," and busying herself in odd moments with causes unquestionably worthy. Her triumph was last week, that no smart anecdote or pert story was "hung" upon her name by the American press...
...lawyer. Release, recognition and death follow. Rex Cherryman, last seen in The Noose, gives promise of developing into one of the theatre's most brilliant young actors. Carroll McComas, as the lady so much more sinned against than sinning, seemed real in spite of her struggle with late Victorian anguish...
John Sargent died in 1923, reading peacefully one evening in his London bed. An artist who transplanted a half-acre of roses for a garden picture, and carried a stuffed gazelle about Europe for another work, he was painstaking. A Victorian who said, "Ruskin, don t you know-rocks and clouds-silly old thing", he had critical independence. An observer who called English trees "old Victorian ladies going perpetually to church in a land where it is always Sunday afternoon," he was more whimsy-realistic than imaginative. An artist who, to fasten the attention of a restless, primitive Spanish model...