Word: mayfair
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...heat and tension of the War Britons came to know King George and Queen Mary in their innermost qualities of heart. Never since then has the Crown been narrowly identified with any class- whereas Queen Victoria was conquering middle-class and King Edward was almost dilettante Mayfair...
...been a staple of comedy since classical times, and Wodehouse certainly knew his Plautus and his Terence." By the 1920s, magazines like Liberty and The Saturday Evening Post would pay up to $35,000 to serialize a Wodehouse novel. At the dawn of the Depression, he had a Mayfair mansion and a Rolls Royce with his crest on the door. Money led to his downfall. Tax authorities in the U.S. and Britain began to pursue those royalties, so Wodehouse fled to the northern French resort of Le Touquet. There in May 1940 he was seized by the German army...
Brown's Focus, a high-luster boutique in London's Mayfair district, is not what you would call a sizable space. There may be price tags in this shop bigger than the sales floor. But one reason David Adjaye is the hot British architect of the moment is that he knows you don't need much room for an exclamation point. So into this narrow shop he has insinuated a staircase of varnished particle board that runs from the lower level to the center of the main floor. Jazzy, glamorous and slightly disreputable, this is a staircase that...
Northeast Philly is not Northern Ireland. There are no political realities to the boundaries between Mayfair and Tacony. Residents in both neighborhoods pay the same property taxes, send their kids to the same schools and vote in the same elections. But in spite of the boundaries’ irrelevance—or maybe because of it—talk of Tacony’s borders soon leads to shouting...
...lecturing about Tacony’s storied industrial past, its current struggle against urban blight and its future resurrection. The neighborhood has to come full circle, he kept repeating, as we circled Tacony’s perimeter. Some people in Tacony like to claim they’re from Mayfair because it has the connotation of being more modern, but he’s seen enough maps and pictures to know that they’re full of it. If your house was in Tacony in 1903, it’s still part of Tacony 100 years later. Besides, it?...