Word: edwardianism
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PORTRAIT OF MAX, by S. N. Behrman. British Perfectionist Max Beerbohm, novelist, drama critic, cheerfully malicious caricaturist, let the 20th century wash past him during more than four decades of retirement in Italy. Edwardian dandy to the end, coolly satisfied with his own limitations and common-sensibly appalled by people who did not recognize theirs, he delighted in civilized talk of the kind that Playwright Behrman expertly caught...
Portrait of Max, by S. N. Behrman. A fond, endearing portrait of Sir Max Beerbohm, whom the author met in Rapallo during the sixth decade of that sempiternal Edwardian's self-declared...
...folly or matrimony. Endowed with broad brow, straight nose (admired by Englishmen in both their hounds and their women) and what 17th Century Poet Robert Herrick termed a "swan straining, faire, rare stately neck," isolated beauties from Charles II's Nell Gwyn to Lady Hamilton have shared with Edwardian Actress Lily Langtry the brow, the neck, a mass of lovely hair, and skin like an English rose...
...nobody's wife," is a British institution; and historians are inclined to wonder whether the Empire would have been possible without them. "My nurse was my confidante," wrote Sir Winston Churchill; though he loved his mother "dearly," he did so only "at a distance." In Victorian and Edwardian days, the nanny's career tended to follow a pattern. She was usually the promising "girl from the village," who was taken in as a young "tweeny" and slowly made her way to that precarious rank that hovered between those who were servants and those who were "quality." In time...
...industries booming, its citizens more prosperous than ever before, Britain is surging into the 1960s with a self-confidence unmatched since Edwardian days. Yet last week from every side Britons found themselves assailed by Cassandras crying that today's growth was likely to prove tomorrow's ruin...