Word: gentlewomen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Manhattan top-hatted and bustled into the 90's the late Clara B. Spence founded a school for girls. Extremely correct, it was on 48th street, just off Fifth Avenue-a school for gentlewomen. Even Manhattan's late Social Arbiter Ward McAllister approved. Last week in Manhattan's soon-to-be-destroyed Hotel Waldorf Astoria of which Arbiter McAllister also approved, 500 Spence alumnae and their parents gathered for dinner. Yale University's President James Rowland Angell and Steelman Charles M. Schwab were speakers. The news was that the Spence School, now no longer privately...
...people purred contentedly at being thus addressed. Scarred thugs in saloons; bleary night crowds in Porto Rico; hawk-eyed Indians in New Mexican hovels; gentlewomen in staid mansions in Buffalo, N. Y.?all leaned forward eagerly...
ALTHOUGH one of the old guard in the ranks of English novelists, May Sinclair has never been addicted to what one might term a Victorian style of writing. Her ideals may be faintly romantic, her point of view that of a retiring, gentlewomen, but her prose is terse, keen and precise. This verbal sparsity exhibits itself especially in her latest book "The Allinghams"--a work faultlessly written but unfortunately conceived...
...conservative painting is that by Juan Oliver. In it are gentlewomen and gentlemen grouped about a grand piano in quiet poise. The men, oddly, wear clothes...
...basement room, sorted his pearls, graded them, matched them into the finest necklaces. He made up a necklace of emeralds and pearls for Mrs. Isaac Bell, for $5,500. Later the centre pearl alone of this necklace brought $90,000, money that went to establish the Bell Home for Gentlewomen. Twenty years in the U. S. brought him some wealth. So he moved to Fifth Avenue. Delmonico's was next door. Bankers and merchants would be there, eager to crowd about his table. As they poured their wine, he poured his pearls on the table, rubies, emeralds and sapphires...