Word: edwardianism
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Says one of her Edwardian cake-eaters, "Every baby ought to have a silver rattle." Not all the children in this story were so lucky. When Francesca married Adrian it was a love-match, and their son Robin was no accident. But Adrian was such a drifter that Francesca finally cut loose from him, tied up to the solider character of Frederick. The child of their marriage was born not only to comfort but security. From the triumphantly peaceful room where Francesca lies with her infant daughter the story reaches out into surrounding space and time: to unhappy Adrian, drifting...
...anguish to a husband whose attention is distracted by a bumbling search for toothpaste. Miss Delafield also occasionally gets off such lines as: "Every Englishman is an average Englishman." The husband, ringing for the harried servant in spite of the wife's wishes, observes with exquisite Edwardian pomposity: "What's the use of keeping a dog if you do your own barking...
Etta did not so much believe in woman's rights as in her own. As daughter of the house in a stuffy Edwardian provincial town, she was expected to remain a dutiful child until she became a no less dutiful wife. Etta had what she thought were less middle-class ideas. When her parents refused to fall in line, she ran away from home to London and freedom. Stenography saved her from starvation, and a lucky encounter with a Lady Bountiful gave her a social secretary's job on easy street. A rich young socialite fell in love...
Divorced. Edward Francis Willis James, son of the late Mrs. William ("Willy") James, famed Edwardian hostess; from Ottilie E. ("Tilly") Losch James, Viennese dancer; in London. The divorce followed a sensational eight-day trial at the close of which Mrs. James and Prince Serge Obolensky, who was named corespondent, were ordered to pay costs...
...more serious things in life (one must to that in a column once in a while, you know), there are four tomes that you should consider when buying something for father, or a favorite professor, and we might include also, just any ordinary man. We are talking about The Edwardian Era, by Andre Maurois (Appleton-Century, $3.00): Charles the First, by Hillaire Belloc (J. B. Lippincott, $4.00): Mary Queen of Scots, by Eric Linklater (Appleton-Century, $1.50); and An American Colossus, by Ralph Edward Bailey (Lathrop, Lee & Shepard, $3.00). In these four presentations we find a bit of history...