Word: mayfairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vies with the ridiculous, approaching farce, where only dignity and religious feeling were intended. The mania for making the unreal appear real, for putting Hamlet in plus fours, can amuse but hardly impress. Perhaps there were wise-cracking merchants in Israel but we can't believe they had Irish-Mayfair-Swedish brogues...
...which the tall, lithe and lethal Armenian snorted over his Veuve Cliquot, or wasn't it Veuve Cliquot?--one never knows, does one as the birds on the ledges above the tower of St. Anne Who Was Awfully Good To Goodlooking Women have often chirped into the air of Mayfair on a bright and glimmerful day of sunshine and the sheene of nicest stockings on not the nicest ladies...
Encompassed by a certain block on Bruton Street, Mayfair, stand The Coach and Horses (a public house), the business establishments of a tailor, corsetiere, photographer, beautifier, decorator, and the residence of Claud George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore...
...conservative card tables of Mayfair has come a startling innovation. American residents have introduced poker as a rival of bridge in fashionable society, much to the discomfiture of stern old auctioneers. Newspaper report has it that bridge is hard put to compete with the western invader, so lately come from lumber camp and smoking...
Visitors in London have seen her in gay night clubs, where she is toasted as Mayfair's wit and called the original of Michael Arlen's green-hatted lady. Visitors last winter in the Bahamas saw her parade the beach in pink bathing pajamas, and one night dance in the sand around a palm-shadowed driftwood blaze, a barefooted nymph of the tropics. Madonna, nun, nymph, notable, she is first and foremost a young lady in love with life...