Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restoration took five years and $113 million to accomplish, but Washingtonians who last week strolled through the Victorian opulence of the reopened Willard Hotel a block from the White House seemed to find it all worthwhile. Shuttered for 18 years, the historic structure, which evolved from four row houses built in 1816, had been gutted and painstakingly renovated by Developer Oliver Carr. At a black-tie reception, descendants of Founder Henry Willard gathered for pictures under the massive chandeliers in the ornate Crystal Room...
...project was held up nearly two years because residents of the surrounding neighborhood protested Harvard's acquisition of 8-10 Mt. Auburn St. At first, the University proposed tearing down a 93-year old Victorian building, but modified the scale of its plans in the face of community opposition...
Several paths radiating from the central fountain will be bordered by pear trees and rose bushes. The garden will be encircled by a Victorian-style ornamental fence...
...thinkers. Under the influence of opium, wrote Dr. George Wood, the president of the American Philosophical Society, in 1868, "the intellectual and imaginative faculties are raised to the highest point compatible with individual capacity." Doctors began prescribing opium- based concoctions for every malady from headache to skin rash. Respectable Victorian ladies calmed their babies with narcotic potions, such as Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup and Hooper's Anodyne, the Infant's Friend. Heroin, a morphine derivative, was sold legally at the turn of the century in drugstores and by mail-order catalogs and traveling salesmen...
...know, was Prince Edward, 22. Last summer, taking a minor role in an amateur production of The Taming of the Shrew, he disported himself so well -- and, not incidentally, sold out the hall every night -- that this year he was asked back to star in The Magistrate, a Victorian farce. Edward manfully summons up the sullen shallowness of a 19-year-old rogue being passed off as a 14-year-old schoolboy, then trips up, literally ; and figuratively, during a hilarious escape scene. Theatrical fate, though, can be cruel: a popular local comedian was packing them in last week...