Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best writer in English on South America, his death last March evoked little more than the perfunctory tributes, compounded of respect and surprise, that seem to be reserved for literary figures who are generally thought to have been dead for years. But Cunninghame Graham was no mere Victorian period piece surviving to a cynical and indifferent age. Born in London in 1852, he was brought up by his Spanish grandmother and his Scotch father, lived through enough careers in his 84 years to make such celebrated literary men of action as Doughty or Wilfrid Blunt seem sedentary by comparison. Leaving...
...memoirs, completed three months before his death last June, are most interesting when he neglects his theme and describes his relationship with his rivals. Born May 29, 1874, into an honest and respectable middle-class family, Chesterton lived long enough to admire even the hypocrisies of his Victorian household. His father was a real estate agent and surveyor, an ironic individual who reminded his son of a character by Dickens. One of the elder Chesterton's idiosyncrasies was to pretend that he knew a great deal about flowers, gravely lecturing to lady visitors about a "sprig of wild bigamy...
Last winter the work on the door was uncovered by restorers from the Fogg, somewhat in the manner of a repainted old masterpieces, and now resumes its former importance. The paintings cover the two middle panels, both done in dark colors, much in the manner of a gloomy mid-Victorian picture. The top panel shows a bird, akin to a seagull, in the process of swallowing a fish, while the bottom one depicts a turtle resting on a half-submerged...
Pamela Thistlewaite (Katharine Hepburn) and her sister Flora (Elizabeth Allan) are daughters of a mid-Victorian prig (Donald Crisp) who, to punish them for disobeying their governess, can think of nothing more suitable than to marry them off. Flora soon weds a young officer in the Navy. Pam's young man turns out to be a cad; he leaves her on the verge of becoming a husbandless mother. When an accident kills off Flora's ensign, Flora, also pregnant, dies of the shock. Painful but convenient, the circumstances of her death - in Italy where both sisters are holidaying...
...past, before the development of modern newspaper facilities, conscientious voters often remained in ignorance of the true significance of the ballot they had cast for many hours. The Harvard CRIMSON attempts to avoid recurrence of these mid-Victorian conditions...