Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ROMANTIC COMEDIANS?Ellen Glasgow?Doubleday, Page ($2.50). Judge Gamaliel Bland Honeywell?note his middle name? was jilted in the heat of his Southern-Victorian youth by queenly Amanda Lightfoot. On the rebound he married a dovelike Cordelia whose solicitude for his digestion during their 36 years together far surpassed her sublimation of his romantic tendencies?or, dare we say, his passions. They had no children. She modestly discouraged his tenderest husbanding. Hence it was not surprising that Gamaliel, at chivalric 65, caught himself thinking, as he laid his fifty-second weekly wreath on Cordelia's grave, of other women?...
...wholly void. Here one may see in a scant two miles (scant, but how replete with experiences!) treasure-trove of all peoples and all generations: Roman temples and Parisian shops; Gothic of sorts (and out of sorts) from the 'carpenter-Gothic' of 1845 through Victorian of that ilk, to the most modern and competent recasting of ancient forms and restored ideals . . . delicate little Georgian ghosts, shrinking in their unpremeditated contact with Babylonian skyscrapers that poise their towering masses of plausible masonry on an unconvincing substructure of plate glass. And it is all contemporary . . . while it is all wildly...
...lodging; her naturally monogamous nature as contrasted with the more catholic affections of the male. In the play the first cause for fidelity is blotted out by Constance's solvent enterprise in the interior decorating business. As for the second, it is simply an argument advanced by a Victorian mother-in-law with urbane cynicism, who declares that the only test of true love is whether you can use your husband's toothbrush. The dialogue is conscious of its own glitter. The audience is aware that actors settle themselves, preen themselves, for the utterance of shining platitudes, universal...
...Exchequer. The affair came to light. Mr. Lloyd-George was bitterly assailed for profiting privately from official information. Parliament, however, acquitted me of all stigma and let the others off as having been merely 'indiscreet.' "In 1914 I was honored with the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order. The Fritz and Franklin medals in the U. S. were also mine; all the important crosses and decorations of Italy descended upon me; indeed in 1909 the King of Italy himself had nominated me as an Italian Senator, which I forthwith, of course, became...
...WOMAN WHO DID-Grant Allen-Little, Brown ($2). Victorian tea-tables were violently oscillated by the appearance of this shocking tale 31 years ago. Only the wicked Continental authors had thitherto dared treat openly of females who "did." Author Allen's Herminia Barton not only "did" but gloried in it, and he in her. Daughter of a dean, school mistress of proper young ladies, Herminia positively refused to be made an honest woman, though her sensible lover, Alan Merrick, pleaded, and her would-be father-in-law cabled to them in Perugia with a flourish. Nevertheless, Victorian sympathy surged...