Word: edwardian
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Rich beyond most writers' dreams, Maugham became a kind of semipublic personage, a figure of Edwardian origin and habits, projecting an Ed wardian image on modern scenes. He looked like a character from one of his own novels: heavily lined patrician features, thin lips turned down at the corners, hooded eyes. Traveling the world in search of stories, he napped after lunch wherever he happened to be-aboard a tramp ship plowing the South Seas, in a Burmese hut or an outrigger canoe. Churchill, Wells, Cocteau, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Kings of Sweden and Siam called...
Inside, she regained her composure. Symphony Conductor Erich Leinsdorf gallantly kissed her hand as she entered, and she chatted comfortably at the dinner table with him and Henry Cabot, board president of the symphony. Amid the dimly lit candelabra and the red-globed lamps of the Edwardian decor, sweating photographers dashed about popping dozens of flashbulbs at her, occasionally overturning chairs and breaking wine glasses. The guests-from Boston grandes dames to college boys-gaped openly at Jackie, but she seemed unperturbed. Dinner was surprisingly good for such an affair: lobster, veal, braised endive and soufflé glacé. Jackie...
Onassis did not come emptyhanded. Rainier was originally delighted to see him, because the Greek shipping magnate invested some $1,500,000 in 52% of the stock of the Société des Bains de Mer, an Edwardian sprawl of properties that includes the casino, the yacht club, the 60-year-old Hótel de Paris and about one-third of Monaco's 375 acres. Bien, thought Rainier, Ari will also bring in his rich friends, make the roulette wheels spin as they used to before the war-and use the S.B.M.'s reserves to build...
...mere four years younger than Heath today. By all the odds of British politics, Edward Richard George Heath will be Britain's Prime Minister some day. Britain has had bachelor Prime Ministers, but none since the urbane Arthur Balfour in the Edwardian...
...Arthur John Gielgud, LL.D., actor-director. Restoration beau and antique Roman, Edwardian dandy and, above all, sable-suited Dane...