Word: edwardian
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Died. Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, 85, British novelist whose 19 books provided an acerbic commentary on the Edwardian era; in London. Dame Ivy cared little for plot and less for scene setting; her regiment-sized casts of disembodied characters came and went like ghosts in a dank country estate. Yet she was a master of dialogue, uncovering the tragicomic foibles of upper-class England in such books as The Mighty and Their Fall and Bullivant and the Lambs...
...procession, almost two hours long, of soldiers in their dressiest uniforms, bards dressed in swirling blue-and-green togas, Welsh politicians in robes of office and British officials, including Prime Minister Harold Wilson, KEYSTONE in morning clothes. The royal family itself was rather subdued. Queen Elizabeth, carrying an Edwardian parasol, was done up in pale gold. Prince Philip wore the dark blue, braided uniform of a field marshal. Prince Charles, who waited in the Chamberlain tower until formally summoned by his mother, wore the No. 1 blues of the New Royal Regiment of Wales, of which he is colonel...
...threatens to do the unthinkable. He tells the boys in the city room that he is going to get married, desert his raffish calling and go square in a New York advertising firm. His boss, Walter Burns (Robert Ryan), the managing editor of the Chicago Examiner, dresses like an Edwardian dandy and has the ethics of Genghis Khan. There is no device that he will not employ to hang on to his ace reporter...
Flying Womb. Being recognized first requires being seen-and the spanking convinced longtime Recluse Hefner that he must widen his horizons. He began by widening his lapels: off came the bathrobes and cardigan sweaters, on went $15,000 worth of Edwardian suits from Chicago Tailor George Mashbitz. He quit taking amphetamines, started getting six or eight hours of sleep every day, worked out on a slant board and an exercise bicycle, and gradually built his weight back up to 175 lbs. He turned most of the day-to-day operation of his enterprises over to subordinates, and made travel plans...
...Shanghai Express." But she squanders her assets. "She wears a ghastly bright red lipstick that kills the color in her face. She does not wear any eye make up and therefore looks mousy. She buys brightly colored, constricting clothes." Blass' prescription is to dress her in Edwardian or Russian-inspired clothes. For daytime receptions, he would like to see Pat in a round-cornered cloth coat, with a Russian sable stole and hat to soften the lines of her face...