Word: edwardianism
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Died. Maud Alice ("Emerald"), Lady Cunard, seventyish, famed Chicago-born hostess of Edwardian England's literary & artistic set, and later a boon companion of Edward VIII and Wally Simpson; of pleurisy and cancer; in London. A sometime intimate friend of Novelist George Moore and Symphony Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, Emerald married Steamship Heir Sir Bache Edward Cunard in 1895, came to view with imperturbability the diatribes of her ultra-radical daughter Nancy...
Within their ornate frames, the Edwardian ladies & gentlemen looked just as the most fashionable artists of their day had found them-rich, well-bred, proud, and usually a trifle bored. These proper people, in proper painting, hung last week in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum celebrating New York City's 50th anniversary as an incorporated big city (TIME, June...
Last week, 100 members of Oxford's Labor Club decided to reenact the epic of Edwardian chivalry-even Socialists could be sentimental about the old days. They voted Anne Whates, a dark, buxom history student at Lady Margaret Hall, the girl for whom they would most willingly jump into the river. One day last week, dressed for her part in a straw boater and a Japanese sunshade, the new Zuleika was punted downstream in a chilling rain. Of the 100 voters, only nine braved the river, but three jumped with such abandon that Zuleika beckoned for an encore. (Said...
...adored his wife, and the only other woman in whom he ever showed so much as "interest"' was a rugged member of the London Technical Education Board. Placed next to that noted Edwardian beauty, Lady Desborough, at dinner, Sidney only wondered why she had such a "silly trick of shutting her eyes...
Died. Princess Helena Victoria, 77, spinster granddaughter of Queen Victoria; first cousin once removed of George VI ; after long illness ; in London. A bright court figure in her youth, she helped hasten the change from the conservative Victorian to the gay Edwardian era by sporting colorful clothes, dancing the latest steps, taking in dog races and speaking her mind frankly in public...