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...that classic scene in the men's room of a small night club, where he is coaching his successor as washroom attendant and telling him the chance of promotion, he ad libbed, "Why, if you click in this joint, you may work up to some four-sinker like the 'Mayfair...
...court recessed, Mayfair recalled that Toffi is technically no princess. Morganatic and never recognized by the ancient Hungarian House of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was her marriage to one of its scions, from whom she has been divorced for years. In London she was accepted socially by a few, including Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith; later clung on the fringes of Lady Astor's so-called "Cliveden Set." An active intrigante, during the mission to Prague of Viscount Runciman, busy Toffi was present at at least one tea party at which she and an assortment of Germans...
Knitting became the acceptable conversational topic at Mayfair dinner tables, even male ARPers knitting to pass the time. Female knitters are called Sister Susies after the popular World War I song: Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers, Such skill at sewing shirts our shy young sister Susie shows, Some soldiers send epistles, Say they'd sooner sleep in thistles, Than the saucy soft short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews...
...sloppy, raw-hued pirates, animals, nudes and caricatures of Hitler looked as if he had dipped his gat in the paint pot and then let fly at the canvas. But with metropolitan art critics, the astute, silk-toppered Artist Sir William Rothenstein, the Duke of Kent and bevies of Mayfair socialites swarming to see his pictures, and with the whole show bought by Scottish Art Dealer Andrew G. Elliot, the bushy-headed, self-styled ex-gangster pal could well afford to smile...
...Francisco editors Poet Miller got rejection slips until his famous junket to England. Armed with a laurel wreath for Byron's grave, the manuscript of Songs of the Sierras, a pair of cowhide boots and a sombrero, he was taken up by Pre-Raphaelites, became the rage of Mayfair in no time. He whooped as he entered drawing rooms, smoked two cigars at once, picked his teeth with ostentation. Once he scuttled quickly across the floor, bit his hostess' pretty daughter...