Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Note: In the Victorian age, women used to take small doses of arsenic to create an alabaster complexion...
...spinster has always been a haunting and rather mysterious figure: no man quite knows her. Victorian writers characterized her as a religious zealot or an anxious nanny. In the post-analytical theater, Playwrights William Inge and Tennessee Williams toss her about like a sex bomb on a short fuse -guaranteed to explode somewhere in the second act. Sylvia Ashton-Warner's Spinster and Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God show the bomb defused. Both novels capture the faded maiden in dignity and pathos. She is as obsolete as an antimacassar-and as real as the reader...
...used to work out at Y.M.C.A. "Swim and Slim" classes-exertions that have served more to re distribute her weight than to take it off. She is an enthusiastic amateur dec orator and refurbished the Governor's exquisite 19th century mansion at Annapolis in a style she calls "Victorian with chintz." Her husband, however, included an imported sauna bath in the restoration...
...Often he is on the road for weeks on end, racks up 20,000 air miles a month. He drops in on each S.O.M. office, tramps through national parks as a special consultant to the Department of the Interior, returns to California to help plan a Victorian-style convention center for Monterey, meets actual and potential clients everywhere. Such total absorption led to divorce from his first wife, Emily, by whom he had four children. It also precipitated a drinking problem, which Owings conquered in 1964. He is now married to Margaret Wentworth, a skilled craftswoman (mosaics and stitchery...
...found Thos. Cook & Son to be by far the world's best-known travel agency. The same study reported that Cook's image was that of a stable but stodgy and relatively expensive company. In that sense, the travel agency that started it all in the early Victorian era, 127 years ago, has become a sleeping king of the travel industry. Smug and content with its middle-class clientele, it has ignored both old competitors and the newcomers to the business who have harnessed the boom of cheap package tours...