Word: edwardianism
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...into an iceberg and slowly slipped beneath the waves, the luxury liner has at last been found sitting nearly upright on the frigid Atlantic floor, 500 miles south of Newfoundland and more than 13,000 ft. below sea level. At that depth, the great ship and its trove of Edwardian-era relics have been shielded from the destructive effects of sunlight, heat, algae and parasites. "If you had your wildest dream of how you were going to find that ship, that is exactly how we found it," said an ebullient Robert Ballard, expedition leader and a marine geologist with...
...childhood could have been written by Jane Austen. Agatha Miller, beloved by her parents and an older sister and brother, grew up in an English seaside village surrounded by Edwardian privileges and leisure. Her American father lived off a trust fund that dwindled steadily, and his death when Agatha was eleven left family finances ever more unsteady. Still, breeding and manners meant as much as money, and the young woman, largely educated at home, moved in a circle of eligible bachelors. She turned down three proposals and took a flyer instead. After a stormy courtship, she married Archie Christie...
Since she ruled the downstairs--and much of the upstairs--of Edwardian households, the British nanny has been the "veddy" last word in child care for privileged families. Now she is getting some colonial competition. Prompted by a demand for long-term quality care by the growing ranks of dual- career couples, an Americanized version of the legendary domestic tyrant is blossoming in affluent suburbs across the country...
...worked? Probably not. He was ungiving, and she was too taking. Tom seemed most content playing bridge, in bowler and brolly, with his wife's mother (Margaret Tyzack) and brother (David Haig). Viv imagined herself, with a mixture of impishness and foreboding, as the mistress of Dr. Crippen, the Edwardian wife murderer. Nice judgment, that: Viv is the picturesque victim slipping into madness, and Tom is the deadly St. Eliot, ( condemned because he took advantage of a sinner...
...writing and entertaining, and for his superb collection of majolica and antique wineglass rinsers in his handsome Greenwich Village town house. The bold checks he favored for jackets and the inverness Sherlock Holmes coats he often wore accented an epicurean life-style that would have fit grandly in the Edwardian...