Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the boy was ready to enter high school, his family unhesitatingly sold the homestead and moved to Saskatoon. In school John read the speeches of British parliamentary orators, developed his own florid Victorian style by speaking from a stage while an uncle listened critically from the back of an empty auditorium. Moving on to the University of Saskatchewan, young Diefenbaker joined the ranks of the campus apprentice politicians who ran the debating society, heatedly argued national issues in a mock Parliament. He devoured political biographies (a special hero: Lincoln), won better-than-average marks and a forecast...
...resulting play allows us to see beneath the surface of Shaw and the reigning queen of the Victorian and Edwardian stage for whom he wrote many of his great roles. And in it other famous personages, both in and outside the theatre, flow...
...honored enough to behave like one of his own characters, British Satirist Evelyn (The Loved One) Waugh showed up as honor guest at a London literary luncheon bearing an elegantly Victorian, 2-ft.-long ear trumpet. Waugh, not widely known to be hard of hearing, waggled his antique radar about happily while chatting with table companions, clowned his listening gear with a flourish when an old enemy, Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge rose to speak, crowed later: "I did not listen to a word he said. I do not like that man. We met once in Africa...
Hooray for Mr. John Maass and his kind words about the long-abused American Victorian house [July 1]. My husband and I live in one of them with our three small sons who fight over the privilege of sleeping in the "tower room." I wouldn't trade the house for any of the "thin, nakedly simple, conformist boxes" I've seen; but why would Mr. Maass strip them of their furniture? Doesn't he know the pleasures of the Victorian bed? The sturdy high back that holds you up for the leisurely joy of reading or eating...
...impatiently to debate on the proposed demolition of London's 122-year-old St. James's Theatre (which Actress Leigh had protested two days before by marching down the Strand ringing a handbell). Fuming as Baron Blackford described the St. James's as "simply an obsolete, Victorian, inconvenient, uncomfortable playhouse with no architectural or historic value," she leaped to declaim: "My lords, I want to protest against St. James's Theatre being demolished!" While their lordships sat in stunned silence at this breach of protocol, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod gravely...