Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take heart, American lovers of the koala. Their plight has been recognized by the Victorian Government and it will be a long, long time before they join the legions of species extinguished by the greed...
...Windsor" but Prince Edward, newly created Duke of Windsor, and still Knight of the Most Ancient & Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Star of India, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Grand Master of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, Grand Master of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Knight of the Golden Fleece of Spain, Knight of the Order of the Annunziata of Italy...
Here was Mr. Baldwin, the massive Victorian figure of a John Bull who has not a nerve in his body, who reads the newspapers as little as a statesman can nowadays, who simply will not use the telephone in international crisis-because one never knows who is listening-and is, in short, a middle-class English company director who never went out to make a sale in his life. Here, on the other hand, was the "Empire Salesman," the ever-young and pepful crowned head. In him Britain had invested millions to build up Edward as Heaven's gift...
...hand, and dadaists and surrealists on the other is basic, easily grasped. Abstract painters think of their pictures and statues as objects devoid of meaning, sufficient unto themselves. Surrealist art is still based on reproduction, one reason that its ablest exponents cling to the finicky technique of Victorian miniature painters...
This first edition of the original journal is far more than a gold mine for perspicacious scholars and philologists. In it, for the first time, we find slightly gross incidents, evidently too perturbing for the delicate tastes of former Victorian editors. New light is shed on Boswell's simple, superstitious nature, and Johnson gives us more logic and heavy wit. There is, perhaps, no better account of life in Scotland around...