Word: edwardianism
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...Lived. Under Greenough Smith, the magazine also spurred the Edwardian spirit of adventure and empire by travelogues, picture biographies of famous men and foreign correspondence by Winston Churchill (see THE HALF-CENTURY). The Strand's notable scientific articles were usually written by nonscientists. When Greenough Smith wanted an article on orchids and the writer protested that he "hardly knew an orchid from a geranium," the editor replied: "Just the thing. I will give you an introduction to the greatest of orchid growers, and if you will write an article on what interests and enlightens you, then [it] will interest...
...settings of her oils were Edwardian drawing rooms with striped wallpaper and horsehair sofas, and idyllic landscapes with castles and waterfalls. They were peopled, reasonably enough, with whale-boned ladies, poker-faced children and prim nannies, and, less reasonably, with mild-seeming lions, tigers, seals, leopards, lemurs, alligators and bears with nose chains. Animals took the place of men in E. Box's dream world...
...dressmakers had lifted skirts closer to the knees. Paris houses showed short, narrow evening gowns with huge, trainlike attachments and bathing suit tops. There was a host of minor gimmicks: the boyish haircut, jagged at the edges; the sleek "attenuated siren look"; huge black fur muffs; long umbrellas; Edwardian gloves; the lacquered evening "back-of-the-head bandeau"; Eton collars; the coal scuttle; the Picasso bicorne...
...With 80 pages to go, she rushes in scented, scintillating Cousin Cedric, the new heir from Canada, to charm Lady Montdore off the shelf. A face lifting, some rigorous massage and the trick of pronouncing the word "brush" before entering the drawing room (it fixes her smile) convert her Edwardian pomp into a garish girlishness. Cedric completes his round of conquests by capturing Polly's husband, who has lost his interest in women anyway, and whisking him and Lady Montdore off to a gay Paris holiday. "So here we are, my darling," chortles Cedric to an old friend, "having...
With their feminine players, the Idlers have a real gold mine. Very nicely decked out in some colorful Edwardian costumes, Connaught O'Connell and Lydia Hurd were properly biting and caustic as the staunch man-lover an man-loather, respectively. The Edith of Jane Johnson was reminiscent of Pamela Brown in "The Importance of Being Earnest," and Miss Johnson could hardly be paid a better compliment...