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...never really prospered. In Lear's day, Royal Academy openings were occasions for a grand turnout of the Establishment in sables and broadcloth. Being an impresario for oneself was intrinsic to the success of the Victorian artist. Lear was always a little below the salt. He had his studio at-homes, but those who came to scoff his scones did not remain to pay for his pictures. Briefly he joined the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. But how could his neat landscapes compete with the bogus medievalism of Burne-Jones' Sir Galahad or the religiosity of Holman Hunt...
...Macmillan. Britain's former Prime Minister has written his autobiography, not his memoirs, and this first volume ends as warbling air-raid sirens signal the start of World War II. Historians will find it a must; other readers will be intrigued by the glimpses into the tweed and broadcloth society of the 1920s...
...Harold Macmillan. Former Prime Minister Macmillan has written his autobiography, not his memoirs, and this first volume ends as warbling air-raid sirens signal the start of World War II. Historians will find it a must; other readers will be intrigued by the glimpses into the tweed and broadcloth British world...
...Christie, who stepped from her Cadillac with a bored-looking, beatle-mopped chap named Don Bessant, was dressed, prophetically, like an Oscarette in a gold lame pajama suit. Kim Novak slinked by in something that looked like a sequined American flag, while Julie Andrews wore a red-orange wool broadcloth with a deep-V "wrapped front" and a 30-karat topaz pendant...
...They arrived six months later, and, with the King's reluctant permission, set up Protestant missions, devised a Hawaiian alphabet, soon printed a speller, began teaching eager natives, turned out countless yards of cambric Mother Hubbards, shirts and suits (the King ordered a dozen fancy shirts and a broadcloth jacket), promoted monogamy, introduced the spare, hardy architecture of New England whaling ports. A few years later Kamehameha III signed the "Hawaiian Magna Charta," thus paved the way for parliamentary government...