Word: edwardian
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...Smith, a diffident, conscientious young man with moist hands and an awkward, absent-minded manner, was head gardener at Wotton Vanborough. In this subtly cockeyed novel so much is clear from the start. And his master, Sir John, was the son of a courtly rake whose adventures in the Edwardian era had burdened a number of titled matrons with offspring of discreetly doubtful parentage. One of the doubtful ones was Diana Haddon, now twentyish and one of London's brightest young things, at the moment dallying innocently with Sir John's young affections. There was also the startling...
...forgotten bonds held title to vast if watery wealth. And because out of Sleuth Smythe's capacious hat gratifying miracles sometimes popped, trustees and executors got in the habit of laying the contents of old tin boxes before Mr. Smythe's blazing blue eyes, red face and Edwardian whiskers. Mr. Smythe loved to talk, hated to give any information except for a fee. For the last 20 years of his life he was the only broker in New York who refused to have a telephone...
Just six days before Mrs. Wallis Warfield was to become the merry wife of Windsor, this notice appeared in the official Court Circular. This meant that not only would the future Duchess of Windsor be definitely barred from the title of Royal Highness, a rank that even anti-Edwardian palace officials were walling to concede her three weeks ago, but that now she would be least in rank of all Britain's duchesses, as the most recently created...
...sandbags in February's flood; second, James Keen for Lowland Madonna, another flood scene of a young refugee nursing her baby; third, Edward O'Haire for J. P. Morgan Listens, a shot taken at the Morgan Senatorial inquiry (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936) in which the financier, an Edwardian figure of immense substantiality, is shown leaning forward over his broad centre of gravity and "pointing" at his inquisitors like a smart old bird...
...Woman. Of the Englishwomen of letters before Virginia Woolf (Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes) none had her advantages. She was brought up as a young lady of the Edwardian era, with all a young lady's privileges but no prunes and prisms. She was too delicate to go to school, and no Edwardian restrictions were put on her reading. She never lost her faith for she was never taught any. And her huge connection (her eight brothers and sisters had two different fathers) gave her entree into the useful worlds of English literature and English society...