Word: edwardianism
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...Shaw beamed through nose glasses, brushed her hair straight back, dressed in a modified Edwardian style, wore and advocated short skirts. An artist who recently sketched Shaw remembers her walking so softly that she "dreamed into the room, a small woman, all shades of grey, not beautiful but both composed and alive...
...wife was Thackeray's daughter. Her father was Essayist Leslie Stephen. Her husband was Essayist Leonard Woolf. Her brother-in-law was Art Critic Clive Bell. She educated herself in her father's vanguard-Victorian library, honed her fine wits against the most delicately abrasive minds in Edwardian and Georgian London. Her first novels, The Voyage Out and Night And Day, were a blotted watercolor of social comedy in Jane Austen's manner and her own brand of lyrical metaphysics. In uneasy, brilliant experiments, in critical essays putting such writers as Joyce and Arnold Bennett in their...
...TMWCTD is now so much the possession of Monty Woolley that even its authors' right to a share in it seems questionable. Possessor of the most Edwardian visage of his era, bon vivant, trust-funder, darling of Manhattan's cafe society, onetime Yale English instructor, 53-year-old Actor Woolley plays Sheridan Whiteside with such vast authority and competence that it is difficult to imagine anyone else attempting it. As one of his intimates has remarked: "At last the old party has got the role he's been rehearsing for all his life...
...scrawling the word "No" across the front of a bulky, corporate financing plan. He became absorbed in art collecting back in the 1880s. Leaving the more expensive masterpieces to his friend, the late Multimillionaire Peter A. B. Widener, Johnson concentrated on completeness and comprehensiveness. In a massive, Edwardian mansion on South Broad Street, Collector Johnson plastered walls from floor to ceiling with gilt-framed masterpieces. Finally strapped for space, he had to hang his canvases in bathrooms and inside closet doors. He even hung some on the foot...
...cost $40,000 to change the first floor of Dudley into a commuters' center, chiefly because of the solidity with which the building had been constructed in the Edwardian era. The walls of masonry which separated rooms were usually a foot and a half thick, and a large number of them had to be removed...