Word: boudoirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference adjourned and left the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords, would hold its later sessions around an elliptical table in Queen Anne's Room at St. James's Palace, the Secretary-General of the Conference being installed like an operatic prompter in the late Queen Anne's boudoir...
Although the spice of the performance, Actress Aubert's part in Princess Charming is somewhat vague, she being an adventuress through whose boudoir a great many comic figures flit back and forth...
...blacklist" of liberal speakers and organizations (TIME, May 14, 1928), member of eight other historical societies; and Alfred Joseph Brosseau, president of Mack Trucks, Inc.; at Bridgeport, Conn. Allegations: two years ago Mr. Brosseau became uncongenial; last May he slapped Mrs. Brosseau's face in her boudoir when she refused him the key to their wine cellar. There are no children...
...weekend houseparty at Chevron, the sprawling ancestral manor, comes Leonard Anquetil, polar explorer, the type of free intelligence beloved by H. G. Wells. Anquetil watches the "set" at play, but himself hangs aloof, speculating. He learns of the other guests' boudoir intrigues, all artfully manipulated by his hostess. Only in Viola and Sebastian, the children of the house, does he find the strength of noble heritage without the conventions of elegant social horseplay. The pair make excellent companions, and Sebastian leads his visitor in a scamper over Chevron's rooftops, in the course of which Anquetil saves him from slipping...
...scarf from his chambers. Her husband informs her that he has remarried. The telephone conversations become more frenzied and the pace quickens to the hotel detective's hammering on the door. Climax is reached when she eschews an extremely poisonous snake (which she keeps, oddly enough, in her boudoir) - thereby relieving it of all reason for its presence - and hurls herself down 18 floors to the street...