Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remembers the Chicago World's Fair-the Fair before the last-in 1893, has forgotten Frederick William MacMonnies' Columbian Fountain. It was the largest fountain in the world. Its plaster excrescences shone in the palace-girt Court of Honor. All Victorian eyes viewed it with admiration no less for its artistic beauties than because it showed: "Columbia sitting aloft on a Barge of State, heralded by Fame at the prow, oared by the Arts and Industries, guided by Time at the helm, and drawn by seahorses of Commerce. . . . Horns of Plenty pour their abundance over the gunwales...
Died. Mrs. Rose Hartwick Thorpe, 89, Victorian poet who at 16 wrote the famed Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight;* of heart disease; in San Diego...
Another 1939 lawn favorite is croquet, staging a comeback along with other Victorian fashions. Among U. S. croquet players: Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Socialite Mrs. Margaret Emerson, whose Port Washington estate is the scene of the annual Long Island croquet championship, Novelists Charles and Kathleen Norris, whose summer place is virtually built around a croquet court, Poloist John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Social Cynosure Herbert Bayard Swope, who plays very solemn croquet with Broadway celebrities at his Long Island home, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Drama Critic Alexander Woollcott and the four Marx Brothers. Most of these play according...
Harlem's "400,'' dressed fit to kill, sashayed into Harlem's Renaissance Ballroom to acclaim its No. 1 debutante, lissome, chicory-colored. 18-year-old Wezlynn Margaret Develle Tildon. Swathed in demure Victorian mousseline de soie, Debutante Tildon stood in a receiving line beside her mother, who drawled: "There has never been a daughter in our immediate family who was not properly presented to society...
After the War, when Victorian taboos were thrown aside, and cries of sex freedom rang in every parlor, Freud's doctrines were eagerly gobbled up. Such words as "repression" and "mother fixation" became a part of the common language. Many people still mistakenly think that Freudianism is a doctrine of licence. On the contrary, Freud believes that self-discipline is essential for civilized living, that there is a middle road between unhealthy repression, which bursts forth as neuroses, and free abandonment to sexual pleasures...