Word: edwardians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...human race -wherever that was-Ceylon, Sumatra, Hilo, or the southernmost corner of the Garden of Eden!" Here she wears costumes (by the English house of Motley) inspired by the paintings of the late Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), the "Master of Swish" whose society portraits had an even glossier Edwardian swank than those of John Singer Sargent. Simply by appearing in a blue velvet period gown, with a swooping hat crowned by an exotic bird and delicately moored in place by a face veil, Cornell stops the show...