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And this is what women have come to do on the Continent; but in America they have gone further, and admitted the rival to their very drawing-rooms, where the unmanly husband stretches his legs on the sofa, smokes, and spits on the carpet.

Smoking Etiquette | Edwardian Promenade 2010

The modification of old-fashioned rules in this regard has made the lines faint, it is true, and there is no book on etiquette that does not reprehend as “unbecoming a gentleman” smoking in drawing-rooms, boudoirs, dining-rooms, restaurants, where now men not only are allowed, and invited, to smoke, but where highly respectable women have been known to join them.

Smoking Etiquette | Edwardian Promenade 2010

Thus, as the grandeur of the mountains was reduced and carried into the drawing-rooms of the middle class, so the effects of the Wunderkammern were being divided up and handed out into those same kinds of drawing-rooms, as objects of curiosity and conversation, symbols of our coming ascendency over Nature and the World: little windows into our eventual conquest of things both wondrous and frightening. at

Wunderkammern vs. Cabinets of Curiosity Heather McDougal 2008

Thus, as the grandeur of the mountains was reduced and carried into the drawing-rooms of the middle class, so the effects of the Wunderkammern were being divided up and handed out into those same kinds of drawing-rooms, as objects of curiosity and conversation, symbols of our coming ascendency over Nature and the World: little windows into our eventual conquest of things both wondrous and frightening. at comments

Archive 2008-01-01 Heather McDougal 2008

Oh, she knew her business; taste and refinement, says she, are what we're after, and she got it; I've known rowdier drawing-rooms in Belgravia.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

"The Handsome Cabin Boy" (The Owl, July 1899; after dunning the magazine London received $1.50 for it), is a strange throwback, written between "To the Man on Trail" and "A Son of the Wolf," a stark example of London writing of that milieu about which he knew nothing from experience: drawing-rooms and rich men with yachts.

“Living hand to mouth. . .” 2008

But even if Floyd was guilty of nothing worse than stupidity and negligence, it is still remarkable that despite all the advance publicity John Brown and his projected raid had received, from the halls of Congress to the Kansas border and from the drawing-rooms of Boston to the saloons of Ohio, no one in Washington took any notice or apparently felt a moment's unease.

THE NUMBERS 2010

It was never given to her to perform deeds of heroism for country or for cause, but her life was so lived that there is little doubt that she would have gone to the scaffold if necessary with the same quiet, gracious dignity she displayed throughout her life, from the little farmhouse at Braintree to the gilded drawing-rooms of the French and English Courts to the unfinished parlors of the White House.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

But the rest of the world should be careful for what it wishes because an Obama victory will make the usual knee-jerk anti-Americanism, now so common in the chancelleries and fashionable drawing-rooms of European and developing countries alike, much more difficult.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

Thesis C has Bhutto herself as a perfidious and corrupt hereditary monarch in thrall to a monster husband whose base was limited to Sind province and London's media drawing-rooms.

Simon Jenkins: Meddling in Pakistan 2008