| 单词 | drawing room |
| 例句 | In the drawing room the French windows were open on to the terrace and the sound of the sea murmuring against the rocks came up to them. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The drawing room was full of silent people, sitting at a long and ornate table. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The quadroon sat for hours before Edna’s palette, patient as a savage, while the housemaid took charge of the children, and the drawing room went undusted. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing I knew for sure—we would not find a kindly old couple enjoying an evening pipe and needlepoint in the drawing room. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They sat in the library after dinner and read the evening papers together under the droplight, while the younger people went into the drawing room near by and talked. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The voices were still in the drawing room—she heard her mother's and Mr. Marshall’s, and then, separately, the twins talking to each other. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He saw them push her out and take her at gunpoint to the drawing room, where they ordered her to stand beside him and not move. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The drawing room had been prepared for the interview as if it were a stage set, with two chairs drawn near each other and a tea tray already in place on the sideboard. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z After four days of Mother’s drawing room cookery, with only infrequent trips to the dining car, what we wanted most was something good to eat; a real home-cooked meal. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z They gathered in the drawing room around the piano. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We ate almost all our meals in the drawing room, journeying to the dining car only on those infrequent occasions when Mother yielded to our complaints that scurvy was threatening to set in. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The maid leads him into a grand drawing room, its ceilings aswirl with plaster flourishes, its walls painted a delicate eggshell blue. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She walked into the drawing room and looked at the door. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He shut the drawing rooms and used only the library and his bedroom. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Suppose I told you, Luke, that I would meet you clandestinely in the second-best drawing room—how would you ever know where to find me?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z As though they had a new refrigerator in their drawing room, and a down payment on a DDA flat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We wound up with eleven fellows from Kent sleeping three to a bedchamber and using the second-floor drawing room as their common area for dining and conversating. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Pontellier, attired in a handsome reception gown, remained in the drawing room the entire afternoon receiving her visitors. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Then in the entrance to the drawing room door, Armstrong stopped dead. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z But they move the harvest scene of yellows and greens and blues from Arles and hang the baby’s almond tree in the most prominent place in their flat, above the piano in the drawing room. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When I returned to the drawing room, I saw that the gentlemen were still in a rather serious mood. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z They found Mr. Laurence standing before the fire in the great drawing room, but Jo’s attention was entirely absorbed by a grand piano, which stood open. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked down the hallway, then turned into the drawing room, steady step by steady step, pretending that she could not feel the other mother’s blank black eyes on her back. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “Will you stop it!” she cried on the third evening of Kreacher’s absence, as all light was sucked from the drawing room yet again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Harry knew that the people in the drawing room were listening for more noises from the cellar. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z As I did so the door in the large drawing room that led to the stone passage and the back premises opened, and I heard voices. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I was obliged, as I was saying, to spend some uncomfortable minutes standing in the drawing room yesterday afternoon while Mr Farraday went about his bantering. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z They went back again to the drawing room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z I had, naturally, been called to the drawing room several times already that night to replenish refreshments, and had observed on these occasions the gentlemen deep in conversation over weighty issues. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Your lovely little cousin’s body is lying in the drawing room. The fish have eaten out her eyes. Her mother can’t stop crying. Is that what you call playing.?” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He found us in the drawing room, in the middle of a meal. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Death Eaters, for sure,” said Ron, as he, Harry, and Hermione watched from the drawing room windows. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In the end, I decided the most prudent moment in the day would be as I served afternoon tea in the drawing room. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Between them, they lifted up the woman and carried her into the drawing room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Already, even from the drawing room, it was possible to hear an occasional muffled bad-tempered shout and the clang of a saucepan hitting the hob with unnatural force. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The next day, the discussions in the drawing room appeared to reach a new level of intensity and by lunchtime, the exchanges were becoming rather heated. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I would take him tea in the drawing room and, well ... The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The drawing room which had transfixed Cecilia that morning with its parallelograms of light was now in gloom, lit by a single lamp near the fireplace. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The mantelpiece in the drawing room back home was quite empty. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The air was cleaner in the drawing room, and there was much less noise. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The sitting room would once have been called a drawing room, perhaps; then a living room. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The black shape went into the drawing room, and Coraline followed it a little nervously. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Some thirty people were left in the building, holding out in the drawing rooms on the second floor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She drew away and laid the shoulder bag on her dressing table before following Mrs. Coulter back to the drawing room. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z One day Charles walked into the drawing room and found Lenny sitting on the sofa—not jumping on it—and reading a copy of The Origin of Species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Bessie said nothing, but she evidently knew what had been going on in the drawing room. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why, today! Madame is here now, waiting in the drawing room. And the tailor is here, too, to measure the boys, although boys’ clothes are so much less interesting than girls’. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He said, “We’ll go in the drawing room where we can sit down.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In the drawing room, the air was thick with tobacco smoke. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Over the next couple of years, Charles had the drawing room made bigger and added a kitchen wing so there would be more room for the growing number of servants. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He led the way back into the drawing room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Just before we were to reboard the bus, I wandered into the large drawing room dominated by a Hals and a Rubens. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z We were jammed, two in a berth, into a drawing room and two sections. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z In later years he would rest on the sofa in the drawing room and look at some old china and pictures that Etty had arranged. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She presided over the world in her drawing room on satellite TV. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When I entered the drawing room on this last occasion, however, all the gentlemen stopped talking and looked at me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She scurried across the drawing room and tugged repeatedly on the bellpull that hung by the door. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Marcos decorated the carriage house with some frayed curtains that had once belonged in the drawing room but that neglect and age had turned to dusty rags. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned and hurried into the drawing room and pulled open the door in the corner. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z She put them in a paper bag and crept back into the drawing room when the lights were suddenly switched on. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I went back to the drawing room and thought for an instant that they were chance visitors, all these official people who suddenly filled it. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Glass bowls of red berries were set on small tables in the drawing room, library, and the front parlor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, there are gun rooms and trophy rooms, a billiard room and a smoking room, two libraries, innumerable retiring and drawing rooms, etc. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z While she sat in the drawing room, feeling her tiredness at last, but unwilling to go to bed, her mother was questioned, then Leon and Paul Marshall. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Coraline walked over to the door at the far corner of the drawing room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z His lordship emerged to meet him and the two gentlemen appeared to exchange complicit glances before disappearing together into the drawing room. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She was expected in the kitchen on behalf of her mother, and Leon was waiting for her, she knew, in the drawing room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She doesn't realize how easily I can make myself at home in the Bennet family’s drawing room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As I recall, I was rung for late one night - it was past midnight - to the drawing room where his lordship had been entertaining three gentlemen since dinner. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z When I returned downstairs, I discovered Mr Cardinal moving rather restlessly around the drawing room examining objects he must long ago have become familiar with. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Four smiling, mocking, threatening men remained in the drawing room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Helplessly, she let herself be guided toward the drawing room, all her terror concentrated on the simple fact that he wanted her seated before he broke his news. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There was a figure moving about on the terrace, and lights were coming on in the drawing room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I was, I recall, leaving the drawing room with an empty teapot in my hand when Miss Kenton stopped me and said: 'Mr Stevens, Dr Meredith is just leaving now.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He spent the whole night making incomprehensible movements in the drawing room; later they turned out to be exercises designed to perfect the mind’s control over the body and to improve digestion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother was already bustling around, straightening up the drawing room. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked into the drawing room and clapped her hands twice. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The German countess then began to speak, but I was at this point, for some reason I do not recollect, obliged to leave the drawing room for an extended period. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Her tears were further proof of the truth she felt and spoke, and when her mother’s hand caressed her nape, she broke down completely and was led toward the drawing room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The family did not use the drawing room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z In the boudoir and the drawing room, the parlor and the conservatory, the doors and windows were closed, the draperies pulled together, and the darkness back again. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Unusually, everyone had gathered in the drawing room where tea was taken in exhausted silence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He has a wife who suffers his absences without complaint, and who arranges porcelain kittens by color, lightest to darkest, on two different shelves in their drawing room in Stuttgart. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The only light came from the hall, and Coraline, who was standing in the doorway, cast a huge and distorted shadow onto the drawing room carpet—she looked like a thin giant woman. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The drawing room on the second floor wasn’t a room where folks sat with paints and colored chalk to draw pictures, like I’d figured. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Her quickest way into the drawing room was across the lawn and terrace and through the French windows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She took her hand from the phone and massaged her forehead—no trace of the beast migraine, and thank God for that—and went toward the drawing room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “And an old witch in the tower, and a dragon in the drawing room.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z That afternoon, Emma went down to the drawing room for tea as usual. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The hospital went about its business without involving the prisoner in the elegant drawing room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She continued down the frozen, silent hallways, crossing the three wings of the house, until she came to the drawing room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Nivea went out to fetch her daughter and the two men were left alone in the drawing room, an occasion that Trueba, with characteristic candor, took advantage of to present his economic position. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Clarke hustled her directly to the drawing room in such a flurry of chatter Penelope barely had time to gape at the grandeur of the house’s vast interior. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The sound of Lord Ashton’s voice boomed through the house, up the stairs, and into Penelope’s room at the far end of the corridor, all the way from the first floor drawing room. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z There was a shout from the drawing room upstairs, where Colonel Hawkins and his men had been meeting. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She sorted through them carefully, and selected the oldest, biggest, blackest, rustiest key.They went into the drawing room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “In the cabinet in the drawing room. Nobody could open it. And we...we...” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They all sat in the big drawing room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z He found the others assembled in the drawing room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z After the pigs had been slaughtered and fresh pork was for sale in the market, another wave of British officers moved in and set up their camp beds in the second-floor drawing room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is only horrid beastly boys in the drawing room.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Coraline locked the door of the drawing room with the cold black key. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z She took with her to her grave the picture of her little daughter’s body laid out on the chaise longue in the drawing room of the Ayemenem House. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the course of clearing the dining room, and also in preparing the drawing room for the arrival of the evening's visitors, I was obliged to walk repeatedly past the smoking- room doors. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “I hate levees and drawing rooms. I hate to speak to a thousand people to whom I have nothing to say.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Emily Brent came out of the drawing room window to meet them. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Coraline crept into the drawing room and tried to open the old door in the corner. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z If she was, she should have come into the drawing room and told me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Then, herding close together, they had returned to the drawing room—to sit there—sit, watching each other. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z She asked for a transfer to the drawing room. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The other—the big, carved, brown wooden door at the far corner of the drawing room—was locked. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z There were three other people in the warm drawing room. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Let’s go up,” said Hermione with a frightened look at the same spot, and she led the way up the creaking stairs to the drawing room on the first floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I set the note on a small silver tray and carried it into the drawing room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z One day she came out of the drawing room and saw her papa. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When I returned to the drawing room, a clergyman was talking about the hardships being suffered by children in Berlin. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z They walked behind Parks through my living room, drawing room, and library. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Two years ago,” said Harry, his heart now hammering against his ribs, “there was a big gold locket in the drawing room upstairs. We threw it out. Did you steal it back?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z His voyage to Europe had shown him that a really good gravel path “should be as even and clean as a drawing room floor.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Here it was uncomfortably moist, and they left it quickly, to come through an arched doorway into the drawing room and stand, aghast and incredulous. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Each weekend I put my wages and my tips under the carpet in the drawing room. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z There were drinks in the drawing room or on the terrace, and that was where Briony was supposed to be—with her mother, and the brother she adored, and the little cousins. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Charles watched as in drawing rooms and scientific clubs all over the British Empire, in newspapers and journals around the English-speaking world, people argued about the book. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It takes a few lines but soon I'm sitting with the March sisters in their drawing room on a wintry afternoon. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The butler had left the dining room quietly, taking care to close the doors behind him, and proceeded calmly to the drawing room where his employer was taking tea with a number of visitors. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The drawing room dazzled after the darkness outside; even with his eyes almost closed Harry could make out the wide proportions of the room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z After two strong gin cocktails in the drawing room with Leon and his sister, Marshall had come upstairs to find his room, unpack and change for dinner. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They were very close, and she ran along the veranda and darted into the drawing room; “Hugh Crain,” she said, “will you come and dance with me?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Inside the second room a table had been brought up close to the wall which adjoined the drawing room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Someone addressed her from inside the drawing room and she spoke over her shoulder in reply. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “This is the good parlor, where I’ll serve the tea. The drawing room is upstairs. We’ll clean up there later. Open them windows.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was his lordship who initially revived the matter one afternoon when I was serving his tea in the drawing room. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Moving in a slight awkward crouch, she made her way through the press of loudly talking guests and out of the drawing room door. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Then she leaned the broom against the wall and went into the drawing room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z In the drawing room there was a sense of relief, of relaxation almost, as they heard her go up the stairs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Harry woke early next morning, wrapped in a sleeping bag on the drawing room floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Voices reached him across the hallway through the open door of the drawing room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She paused in the entrance to the drawing room and observed that the chocolate-smeared cocktail glasses had yet to be cleared away, and that the doors into the garden still stood open. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z When the butler reappeared in the drawing room some time afterwards to refresh the teapots, the employer had inquired if all was well. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The drawing room was a welcome change for Betsy, but the move came too late to help. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I left Mr Cardinal in the drawing room and made my way to the study, where I found his lordship working through some pages with a look of deep concentration. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Now, sitting in the drawing room, Emma read page after page of The Origin of Species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I hurried down the hall, past the grandfather clock, and up the stairs to the drawing room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She went indoors, quickly crossed the black and white tiled hall—how familiar her echoing steps, how annoying—and paused to catch her breath in the doorway of the drawing room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The next moment, I was showing in two very distinguished gentlemen, who were met by his lordship in the hall and ushered quickly into the drawing room. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She had bumped into an armchair, in her drawing room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z It would have suited her better had Briony wept and allowed herself to be comforted on the silk chaise longue in the drawing room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Harry and Ron looked at each other, then leaving Wormtail’s body on the floor behind them, ran up the stairs and back into the shadowy passageway leading to the drawing room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z On that particular Holy Thursday, Severo was pacing up and down the drawing room worrying about the scandal his daughter had provoked at mass. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Cautiously they crept along it until they reached the drawing room door, which was ajar. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The maid showed us into a drawing room as large as the entire first floor of the coffee shop. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The junior officers cleared out their cots, clothing, and maps from the second-floor drawing room so we could scrub and polish it from ceiling to floor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Bernard even paints the glass panes in the drawing room so that they look like medieval stained glass. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She could return to her mother and keep her company in the drawing room while she waited. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z By two o’clock in the afternoon the fire had consumed the old drawing rooms that had been used since colonial times, and only a handful of men were left around the President. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Five minutes later, when she reentered the drawing room in triumph, no one paid her any attention, and everything was exactly the same—tired, miserable adults sipping tea and smoking in silence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She went into the drawing room, over to the old door, and she pulled it, rattled and shook it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z And just watch how Laura Baranik and Samantha Steinmetz, with the aid of that rolling furniture, conduct conversations between two older and younger sets of characters in a drawing room scene. 'Seagull' and 'Sense and Sensibility,' From Bedlam Company 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Yet what better escape from pandemic and impeachment than lighthearted capers through the drawing rooms and across the rooftops of Paris? Perspective | With ‘Lupin,’ Netflix created a series worthy of Maurice Leblanc’s enduringly popular gentleman thief 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Both the elegantly appointed drawing room and the characters’ dress evoke Purcell’s time. Music Review | Les Arts Florissants: Take a Play, Then Adorn It With Opera 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z Some of her quiet, delicate, glittering drawings are on show in the exhibition's "drawing room". Mariko Mori: 'There are two kinds of light – one invisible' 2012-12-09T00:05:46Z If they couldn't walk the length of a drawing room with a book balanced on their head they were dispatched to the headmistress. Ladette To Lady needs to forget some of its reality TV etiquette 2010-07-21T12:28:00Z The drawing room’s theme is Love, and a medieval Cupid is painted on the ceiling. Stairway to heaven: Jimmy Page’s castle is his home 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z And if a spectacular piece that you found later catches everyone’s eye on display in your drawing room, you will always prize the far-flung treasure. What Celebrities Buy for Their Homes While Traveling 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The timber wolf, the bison and the eland all experienced T. R.’s dead aim, although the giant polar bear rug in the otherwise feminine drawing room came courtesy of Robert Peary, the Arctic explorer. Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill Home Cries ‘Bully!’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Bostridge tells you things, and he tells them with a histrionic intensity suggestive of a storyteller at ease in the comfort of his own drawing room. Review: Baroque music, superbly played and sung, at Benaroya 2011-05-05T16:06:05Z “We wanted to create a formal French drawing room,” Kedigian says. Step inside a home decorated for a 1-percenter: The 2016 Kips Bay show house 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The tradition soon moved to other fashionable drawing rooms and then to teahouses, hotel dining rooms and lawns of country houses. What does Mom want for Mother’s Day? Tea, nibbles — and time with you. 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z The issue is when they left the stage and came into the drawing room. ArtsBeat: Julian Fellowes on Viewer Criticism and ‘Downton Abbey’s’ Future 2014-02-24T03:30:09Z He gestured at the magnificent proportions of Highclere’s drawing room, familiar to viewers. ‘Downton Abbey’: Saying Farewell to All That 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z "Everywhere. Porcelain chickens from eBay, drawing room armchairs from Amsterdam. Part of the fitness center’s floor was transported from an old elementary school gymnasium in Pennsylvania." Soho House Opens Industrial-Chic Chicago Outpost 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Others mentioned possible impromptu visits in the "Monet room" or another drawing room. Mystery of the L'Oreal heir, 'Mr Nicolas' and the envelopes stuffed with euros 2012-07-03T21:39:13Z As Post put it: “Well-bred people, whether drivers or passengers, are just as considerate of each other as are hosts and guests in a drawing room.” Hitting the road for the holidays? How to behave — and stay sane — in the car. 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The focal point of his small but lavish drawing room was an extensive collection of human skulls. Sebastian Horsley obituary 2010-06-18T14:40:00Z It became an unstoppable fad during the Victorian era, when several fortune-tellers made, well, a fortune by luring people into their velvet drawing rooms to sit in front of a chunk of quartz. Crystals’ Resurgence in the Self-Care Age 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z But then, we are whisked back into the bloodless drawing rooms of mannered artistic re-creation, and the movie collapses back into itself. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z “I’m seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don’t think is unfair,” Fellowes said, settled in front of the fire in the drawing room. Julian Fellowes: The Creator of ?Downton Abbey? 2011-09-11T05:00:22Z In 1895, the painter Edgar Degas arranged himself and two friends in a drawing room as if deep in conversation, for a snapshot-like sense of intimacy. Review: ‘Grand Illusions’ Showcases Deceptive Photography 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z "The negotiation is between the drawing room of your mind and the culture you’re a part of." Festival of Books: Female writers talk 'mansplaining,' un-motherhood 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z We do not want to paint pretty pictures to be hung on drawing room walls. Edvard Munch: the ghosts of vampires and victims 2012-06-22T21:55:13Z Beaumont, though, came from a tradition of realistic theatre, in which, if the script asked for a drawing room or living room, the designer created exactly that. 'Now cross the Andes.' In praise of the impossible stage direction 2012-06-12T11:56:16Z “Let’s bid farewell to the hoaxes piled up on the altars and in the palaces,” Yoshihara urged, “the drawing rooms and the antique shops…Lock up these corpses in the graveyard.” The other modernism 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z For most people, though, the revelation that antiques belonged as much in the drawing room as the museum was hugely liberating. Leighton House: a private palace of art 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z “To quote Ron Chernow’s book, Angelica Schuyler was as comfortable in an English drawing room as in a parlor on the Hudson River,” she said, referring to the Alexander Hamilton biography that inspired the musical. A Night Out With Renée Elise Goldsberry of ‘Hamilton’ 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z In the late 1930s the drawing room was transformed to house the collection of the designer Percy Macquoid, which the V&A had rejected. The Contents of a House – review 2013-05-07T17:36:10Z They all circulate through the stratified society that Perry re-creates — from elegant drawing rooms to dark back alleys, from a London hospital to a country church. The most delightful heroine since Elizabeth Bennet 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Not that it seems so strange immediately; the first of its three parts takes place, like many period stage works, in a deluxe drawing room. Review: The Many Unusual Stages of ‘Fefu and Her Friends’ 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z The drawing room and library, where Burges entertained his pre-Raphaelite friends, are off the entrance hall. Stairway to heaven: Jimmy Page’s castle is his home 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z We end the evening in the drawing room, sipping scotch in front of a log fire, and talk of Debo, now living in the Old Vicarage in Edensor, just a couple of miles away. In pursuit of the Mitfords 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z Then the subject comes up again in the Vernons’ drawing room, where Sir James refers to the “Twelve Commandments.” Whit Stillman’s “Love & Friendship”: Subverting the Social Order with Style 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The endless layout includes more than 50 bedrooms, a series of intimate drawing rooms and a regally appointed dining room with an underground passage to a separate kitchen building. Inside France's $100 Million Palace Pompadour, A Royal Chateau Restored By A Press-Shy Philanthropist 2013-03-28T11:00:00Z Aboard the Normandie, the piano now up for sale occupied the ladies' drawing room and music room, which was decorated with Ruhlmann's furniture in tribute to the French designer, who died in 1933. Rare Ruhlmann piano to be auctioned in NYC 2013-02-14T12:29:13Z In the middle is a glinting drawing room that could be made of minerals; the floor is a lake of black ice. Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z "The drawing room table at the governor’s mansion was completely flooded with letters," Astle told Fox News Digital. Utah man delivers 100 pounds of handmade cards to Ukrainian children in Poland: 'I have time' 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z In a 1907 article, Stoker described Undershaw as having "all the elements of home" and said the view from the drawing room was one of "a never-ending sea of greenery" to the South Downs. Conan Doyle's home saved from redevelopment 2012-05-30T13:17:10Z It's just that the denouement – love that word – is a bit sweatier and takes place in a tropical hotel lounge rather than the usual English drawing room. The White Queen; Agatha Christie's Marple – TV review 2013-06-17T06:04:47Z She even declined to join the Pope and I for a sherry in the drawing room as she had to brush her hair. The Real Iron Lady by Gillian Shephard – digested read 2013-04-07T17:30:01Z You can almost hear the perfectly modulated murmurings of the chattering classes through the tall windows of her drawing room. Joan Bakewell: 'Women have a different way of being thick-skinned' 2010-04-04T20:00:00Z But Heywood’s robust dialogue sounds bizarrely out of place in these drawing rooms. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Familiar, but Far From Haunting 2011-07-20T16:30:02Z The drawing room globe was the most instructional furniture in the house — invaluable during a reading aloud of “Robinson Crusoe.” We Are What We Read 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z He tried to usher the chauffeur into the hall and offered him a bed for the night in the drawing room. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Dirk Durossette’s set ensconces us in Lenny’s den for a drawing room fable in which the ends justify the means, and happily ever after includes rooting for injuries — and waiting for the police reports. | 'Any Given Monday': ?Any Given Monday? at 59E59 Theaters - Review 2011-10-17T23:17:13Z Forget What You Know of Twain, Then Delight in Your Rediscovery Mark Twain’s heroes tend to land in unexpected places: caves, locked cabins, long-gone eras, the Czar’s palace, a Tasmanian jungle, Southern drawing rooms. Critic?s Notebook: Forget What You Know of Twain, Then Delight in Your Rediscovery 2010-09-18T00:13:00Z Her portrait hangs in the mansion’s drawing room, a scarf around her head and a dagger at her side. On a Georgia Island, a Lot of Good Food and Plenty of Nothing 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Alas, despite appealing actors, handsome drawing rooms and impressive estates, “the story’s lone joke and its grinding literalness grow dull,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Fall’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z “After decades conjuring the Anglo-American aristocracy clinking cups in gardens and drawing rooms, Ivory, the survivor, is ready to spill the tea,” our critic Alexandra Jacobs writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Seated alongside each other in the drawing room of a downtown Manhattan hotel in late October, Rudd and Ferrell riffed gamely at times, like they were once again playing their oblivious “Anchorman” characters. The Doctor Is in Too Deep: Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd on ‘The Shrink Next Door’ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z So it was back to the drawing room. Mersey Molière 2013-02-05T18:00:47Z In his drawing room I listened to Bach and managed for the first time to hear Schoenberg. Carl E. Schorske, 100, Dies; Pulitzer-Winning Historian Saw Vienna as Pivotal 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z I was far away from the elegant drawing rooms of Moscow, where Pierre Bezukhov sips dry Madeira wine and dines on hazel grouse. Life at One of England’s Last Tolstoyan Communes 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z “It wasn’t exactly the elephant in the drawing room, but we just felt that the moment was right,” Ms. Godoff said. Media Decoder Blog: After Long Resistance, Pynchon Allows Novels to Be Sold as E-Books 2012-06-12T20:11:49Z He asks just about anything to get their mind off the events that brought them to his drawing room. Computers no threat to Dallas police sketch artist 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z She led him past the drawing room, past the large tree which stood where it always stood, at the bottom of the stairs. Fancy dress by Kate Horsley 2010-12-26T00:05:12Z The vibe was more cozy living room than formal drawing room; the conversation was wide-ranging and occasionally contentious. Here’s What We Learned From Prince Harry’s Interviews 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Aristocratic scandals bubbled over from London drawing rooms and nightspots. In St. Tropez, the Rolling Stones made "Exile on Main St." — and turned rock stars into high society 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z The play’s structure is that of an old-fashioned drawing room drama of confrontation, in which civilized people say the unsayable. Theater Review: ‘Mothers and Sons,’ an AIDS Tale Starring Tyne Daly 2014-03-25T02:00:01Z Check out the new chauffeur – a socialist! – peering through the drawing room window to catch a glimpse of wannabe suffragette Lady Sybil wearing a daring pair of pantaloons! Have you been watching ? Downton Abbey? 2010-10-21T12:14:00Z Similarly, the newlyweds’ drawing room, designed by Se Hyun Oh, is pristine white, rather than choking in Victorian darkness. Antaeus Theatre Company clarifies the bad behavior of 'Hedda Gabler' 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z The ground floor of the house has a central drawing room and wings that contain a small dining room and a parlor. An Effort to Save J.M.W. Turner’s Country House 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z This play about entrapment never leaves the drawing room. Theater Review: ?Rutherford & Son? at Mint Theater 2012-02-29T00:18:13Z You never quite know where you are in this blend of drawing room comedy, poetic treatise, and feminist, bodice-ripping romance. ACT's 'In the Next Room' is a romp offering more than good vibes 2011-08-05T22:04:06Z There's a drawing room, french windows and a quartet of young people in tennis gear. The Breadwinner – review 2013-04-24T11:56:16Z Okay, nobody calls it a “drawing room” anymore. Hitting the road for the holidays? How to behave — and stay sane — in the car. 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The digital issue "wasn't exactly the elephant in the drawing room, but we just felt that the moment was right," she added. Thomas Pynchon finally gives in to gravity as digital backlist is published 2012-06-13T13:57:14Z My aim in this august office will be to pull poetry from the drawing rooms and the garrets and the palaces, and send it forth. Race hots up 2010-05-18T12:23:00Z A portion of “Time After Time,” kicking off with a two-hour premiere Sunday at 9 p.m., feeds this idea in an expository scene that takes place inside the elegant drawing room of H. G. Wells. Opiate for the Masses: “Making History” and “Time After Time” add to this season’s TV travel addiction 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z At first sight, the surface is as placid as any bourgeois drawing room — but it roils, on any closer inspection, with hostility and violence. Revolutionary Model Turned Uncompromising Painter 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z After encouraging the sympathetic referee to continue the match, he carried off a postgame interview that takes gentlemanly restraint to levels heretofore unseen outside Victorian drawing rooms. Are American sports fans classier? 2013-01-31T18:33:00Z Auden’s comment: “When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.” Edward St. Aubyn Wraps Serious Thoughts About Science in an Entertaining Package 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z The attractive clique was very dressed up, and in the mahogany-paneled drawing room with its brooding Victorian décor the scene resembled a crossover episode of “Gossip Girl” and “The Addams Family.” Young Socialites Conjure the Ghost of Leonard Bernstein at the Dakota 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Visitors will see some remaining elements of the famous “glass drawing room,” designed by the acclaimed architect Robert Adam for the duke of Northumberland; it once featured green glass pilasters. Spring Shows to Keep Art Lovers Busy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z In an interview in a wood-paneled drawing room at the choir school, Mr. Hyde spoke of his work with the boys and the kind of sound he is seeking. The New Wizard Teaching at the Hogwarts for Choir 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Small wonder that Ms. Shaw’s character, pacing the prison of her drawing room in the opening scene, speaks of being plagued by the feeling of “ice inside me.” | 'John Gabriel Borkman': Ibsen?s Big Chill, With Soul Mates Frozen in Time 2011-01-14T03:01:01Z The main floor comprises a large drawing room with French doors opening onto a formal garden, a dining room, a library, a playroom, a sitting room, and a kitchen. A Elegant Manor in the English Countryside Is on the Market 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Taking his cue from her love of nature, Bennison cocooned the drawing room in one of his own floral fabrics, a glorious tree-of-life motif with a subtle pink background. A New Book Explores the Work of Geoffrey Bennison 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z He worked in the home’s second-floor front study, primarily lived out of the second drawing room and had a special attachment to the backyard garden. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z On the first floor, across from the saloon, are two drawing rooms. A look inside Sandringham House, site of the royals’ annual holiday retreat 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z We meet in the hushed drawing room of a London hotel. Guy Pearce: Don't look down 2010-12-04T00:02:00Z Ibsen's magnificence is hard to put across: the drama opens in a drawing room and ends in a howling waste. Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z The roof is leaking, and the plaster is coming off a wall in the second drawing room. House of writer H.L. Mencken remains in disrepair 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Trompe l’oeil artists were also highly in demand in the decorative arts, and wealthy patrons would hire peintres-décorateurs to shellac their drawing rooms with imitation marble and porphyry. Made You Look: The Cubist Art of Deception 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z “I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body,” Ms. Cattrall says, curling up on a very comfortable couch in the grand Chester Square drawing room of friends. She and Her New City: Kim Cattrall Does London 2010-04-02T15:08:00Z Despite Vidal’s prodigious literary imagination and Buckley’s editorial prowess, both were dinosaurs of the drawing room whose pseudo-patrician affectations rendered them instant parodies of intellectuals. Buckley, Vidal, and the Birth of Buzz 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z This drawing room is far brighter than it was when Prince Edward and Alexandra, later king and queen, had the house built in 1870. A look inside Sandringham House, site of the royals’ annual holiday retreat 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z It's a dark reading in every sense: Miller reproduces the oppressive gloom of gas-lit drawing rooms with a literalness that risks eye-strain. Rutherford and Son – review 2013-02-14T18:02:44Z Dark oaken furniture tries hard to give the grand “Buck Hall” a 17th-century feel while mahogany pieces, Georgian in appearance if not necessarily in reality, make a drawing room look gentler. Auctions: Art Buying Spree at a British Estate 2011-09-16T13:30:07Z The Roys are businesspeople, creatures of boardrooms and drawing rooms, with limitless liquidity but not much in the way of taste. Let’s Talk About the Clothes on “Succession” 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z But Number Sixteen represents a different sort of British hospitality, a more discreet, cozy and make-yourself-at-home kind, with an honesty bar, tree-filled garden and roaring fireplace in the chic but comfortable drawing room. Hotel Rooms With Charm, Off the Radar 2012-10-11T22:02:13Z In the aftermath of the French, American and Industrial Revolutions, a newly rich clientele clamored for the ultimate drawing room accessory to emphasize their entry into high society. When the Old Masters Were the P.R. Agents of the Rich and Powerful 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z “There’s a club bar and drawing room on the ground floor, and we’re putting reclaimed wood paneling on the walls,” he said. Soho House Is Taking the Party Global 2012-06-01T22:43:25Z This insistent repetition makes for fairly steamy stuff in the Regency drawing room. How reading aloud can be an act of seduction 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z The layout of the set and movement of the actors, however, too often undercut the intimacy of what is essentially a small drawing room drama, especially when we can’t fully see an actor’s face. Review: Tipping the Scales in ‘A Delicate Balance’ 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Two wings were demolished, and in 1931 the drawing room was sold to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the dining room to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Inside Art: A Marble Persephone From the Marquess 2011-05-26T22:25:26Z No fashionable drawing room, meanwhile, was complete without a Japanese wall hanging or screen. Ashmolean museum exhibits rare Japanese tapestries of Meiji era 2012-11-07T17:30:18Z The play has the expensive furnishings and dry-martini wit of drawing room comedy, but there's nothing conventional about the work, which daringly marries naturalism with absurdism. Lindsay Duncan finds her footing in 'A Delicate Balance' 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z The museum is planning to bring French period rooms out of storage, including a drawing room that arrived in the 1920s, labeled an authentic Louis XVI salon. Antiques: Rooms With a View of British History 2013-05-02T20:02:50Z All that one might wish for, in the Austen drawing rooms of one's imagination. Review: Book-It's 'Sense and Sensibility' a delight 2011-06-06T21:48:04Z A handful of her filtered cigarettes sit in a china cup on a side table in one of the drawing rooms. | The House That Coco Built 2013-06-07T16:21:12Z The revelers in “Our First Party,” set in a Georgian drawing room, appear to be monkeys wrestling in mud. Genieve Figgis: ‘Good Morning, Midnight’ 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Her change from crazy street lady with a gun to demure old dear serving tea in her immaculate drawing room was a nice juxtaposition. Falling Skies: episode eight 2011-08-23T21:01:01Z Our critic Alexandra Jacobs wrote: “After decades conjuring the Anglo-American aristocracy clinking cups in gardens and drawing rooms, Ivory, the survivor, is ready to spill the tea.” Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The walls are draped in red velvet dappled with gilt-framed paintings, giving the impression that we are all guests sharing a sumptuous drawing room. Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,’ on the Heels of ‘Hamilton’ 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s different than a light comedy that takes place in a drawing room. Matthew Broderick on Dirty Weekend and Ferris Bueller at 30 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z The main level includes a dining room, a drawing room, a sitting room, a kitchen, a study, and a magnificent Richard Turner conservatory. You Could Live in an Irish Castle 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The one who married the head of the British Fascist Party in Goebbels’s drawing room? The Arbiter of Aristocracy: And No, It’s Not Downton’s Dowager 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z There are low jokes, melodramatic declarations and dialogue that might have come from a vintage drawing room comedy. Review: ‘Wolf Hall,’ the Stage Version, Untangles Tudor History With Relish 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z She should be good value in Philip Wilson's revival of Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, a play that is the epitome of the old-fashioned drawing room comedy. This week's new theatre 2011-02-05T00:05:41Z She said yes, so we went in and we went into the drawing room. Denis Healey: the artist within 2011-01-05T20:30:01Z "Visitors arrive via a grand hall where a majestic staircase sweeps up to a cinema room and study, contained in two acoustically sealed pods hovering above a drawing room," he said. Lottery winners seek 'Serenity' with £5m des res with serious mod cons 2013-04-18T12:36:03Z The photograph, taken in the castle's green drawing room by the German photographer Thomas Struth, was commissioned by the NPG to mark the Jubilee and to launch the exhibition. Royal portraits reunited at show 2012-05-16T15:42:35Z “It’s like they’re saying, why don’t you whisper it to your grandmother in the drawing room.” Arundhati Roy — beloved for her fiction, derided for her politics — won’t be silenced 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Literary salons are sprouting all over: in sawdusty pubs, at clubs with rooftop pools, at art centers and in private drawing rooms. T Magazine: Salon Selective 2011-03-23T15:00:51Z In it, a gaunt, handsome man plays the piano in his Berlin drawing room. The Tragic Lessons of Cinema’s First Gay Love Story 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z “It is often very funny, with some moments paced like a drawing room comedy,” Michael Gorra writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Exposed wood beams are found in bedrooms and the split-level drawing room, which features an inglenook fireplace with a brick hearth and wood-burning stove. Making your own house at Pooh corner — author A.A. Milne's home is for sale 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z After decades conjuring the Anglo-American aristocracy clinking cups in gardens and drawing rooms, Ivory, the survivor, is ready to spill the tea. James Ivory, Famous for Buttoned-Up Films, Is Frank About Sex and Much Else in His Memoir 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z He laughs uproariously as he imagines telling a disbelieving policeman how he discovered a body in his drawing room. Tom Wilkinson: down with the big boys 2011-04-05T20:30:00Z And “A United Kingdom — with its David Lean-esque landscapes and backdrop of international politics — is hugely different from “Belle,” which takes place in drawing rooms and the smaller streets of London. Director-writer Amma Asante finds her groove in the political love story. 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Most of the fun is in the clue following, the red herring spotting and the seat-clutching tension as the suspects gather in the drawing room for the moment of exposure. Theater Review: ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ Revived by Roundabout Theater 2012-11-14T03:30:07Z "We've made records here when it's been like this," Gahan says fondly, peering out of the window of an enormous drawing room adjacent to Gore's. Depeche Mode: 'We're dysfunctional. Maybe that's what makes us tick' 2013-03-28T14:03:56Z She has special words for some of us as we are shown into her drawing room: Don’t we look smart, she says. Theater Review: ?Elective Affinities? With Zoe Caldwell - Review 2011-12-03T03:00:04Z A glass-front cabinet in the Hallwyl mansion’s great drawing room dates from the 18th century and once belonged to Pope Pius VI. Hanging on that room’s walls are 16th-century Brussels tapestries. Shopping Scandinavian design in Stockholm like a local — coffee breaks included 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z You will see a tacky, cheerful simulacrum of a classically creepy English manor drawing room. Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Upends a Whodunit 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z As Granny O’Toole told my cousins and me, ice tinkling in her G&T as she charmed the drawing room: “If they’d had the pill 50 years ago, there’d certainly be a few less O’Tooles.” In praise of my cousins – all 39 of them 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z Domestic Warfare, Seen in Slow Motion The lights rise on a spare Victorian drawing room. Dance Review: ?Last Touch First? at the Joyce Theater 2012-04-11T21:32:21Z As Lawrence hosts a meeting of Gilead's leaders in his drawing room, the men discuss what to do about recently captured female insurgents. How Darwin’s sexual selection theory co-stars in "The Handmaid’s Tale" 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Of Mr. Hare’s screenplay, he wrote that everybody “talks in the same peculiar mixture of prissy clichés from bad drawing room comedies.” Review: In David Hare’s ‘Plenty,’ Time Takes the Edge Off a Femme Fatale 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z I was led away to a smaller drawing room within the palace where about 20 or so other writers had been forgathered in a loose ring, backs to the damask walls. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z There are photos from that time of all the children's beds stuffed into the drawing room. Ariadne ducks the bombs at the Glyndebourne festival 2013-05-15T18:00:02Z Next Friday, a partially recreated Hamilton Palace drawing room, about 15 feet high, will be unveiled at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, along with the family’s portraits, gilded dinnerware, perfume bottles and toothbrushes. Reassembling Hamilton Palace, Room by Room, All 150 of Them 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The most basic requirement was a suite of rooms, including anterooms, drawing rooms and a bed chamber, to recreate the ceremony of royal courts. ‘Downton Abbey’ and the History of Difficult Royal Visits 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Prufrock is a miscast troubadour of the Edwardian drawing room who fails to raise his lute or his voice due to simple lack of courage. John Stammers's top 10 love poems 2011-02-09T10:26:17Z The drawing room had been replaced by the kitchen sink, the pub, the factory floor and the community, while standard English gave way to a new vernacular of regional passion and eloquence. Stan Barstow obituary 2011-08-01T19:06:48Z Inside, in the drawing room, the grilling continues. TV review: Highgrove: Alan Meets Prince Charles 2010-09-24T05:45:00Z In an instant, drawing rooms of chitchatting swells were bulldozed to make room for under-heated flats, where working class hotheads were finally allowed to get a few things off their chests. In defense of anger: A critic's appeal to playwrights to let their tempers fly 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The furnishings in Georgetown drawing rooms were never too modern or too new. What really happened at those famous Georgetown dinner parties 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z The penthouse drawing room, with its oculus window, was designed as a meditation space. T Magazine: The Luxury of Humility 2014-05-07T13:00:44Z The one in the library springs open to reveal a drawing room hung with yellow damask; another conceals a staircase that spirals up to a bedroom. Travel Through Centuries of Design at Ireland's Birr Castle 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z But the main drawing room is vast, extending the length of the house, with embossed white walls, huge windows and several conversation groups of white sofas and French chairs. A look inside Sandringham House, site of the royals’ annual holiday retreat 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The ground floor salon, done up like an English drawing room, serves teas and refreshments, while the top-floor garden offers rooftop views. 36 Hours in Orléans, France 2012-07-18T16:09:31Z The drawing room of Lady Muldoon’s country residence, one morning in early spring.” Playwrights get last word in delightful ‘Critic’ and ‘Real Inspector Hound’ 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z A January rain pelted the trees outside the window of the second-story drawing room, atop a graciously curving staircase. 2010-02-06T00:53:00Z When her housekeeper found her body in the drawing room in the northern city of Sassari in the winter of 1914, Giles was clinging to the last minutes of her mysterious life. Death in Sardinia: Murder, an unpublished masterpiece and Italy's misunderstood island 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z With its Gothic exterior and Victorian decorative additions from the 1800s, Knebworth "expresses lots of different periods" with its Jacobean hall, Edwardian drawing room, Victorian library and a Regency bedroom. Knebworth House: The stately home making the most of its film credentials 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z Princess Kate accompanied on piano, in a brief segment recorded in the crimson drawing room of Windsor Castle earlier this month. Sweden wins Eurovision, but UK is second from last 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z Austin is sitting in the huge galleried drawing room, with a portrait by the French painter Tissot on the wall, which was the last work of art Mercury bought, a month before he died. Freddie Mercury: Queen singer's private collection to be auctioned 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Endless meals included biryanis and kofta, lamb in its various iterations, milky-syrupy desserts, all laid out on embroidered tablecloths, among the good china and silverware, in drawing rooms across the Muslim world. 5 festive dishes for an easy Eid al-Fitr lunch 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Leaders of Mr. Khan’s political party took to social media to share footage of tear gas canisters landing on the lawn outside his drawing room. Chaos Breaks Out as Imran Khan Makes Court Appearance 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z The current state drawing room doors and panelling in the armoury, for example, came from the film Victoria and Abdul. Knebworth House: The stately home making the most of its film credentials 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z In 1972, many layers of paint were removed from the drawing room to reveal the original painted and stenciled ceilings. Meeker Mansion in Puyallup showcases the beauty of late-19th-century style 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Soon, three comedians would perform in the cottage’s drawing room, in front of a fireplace and facing about 60 people primed for a playful evening. Comedy meets history at President Lincoln’s Cottage in D.C. 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The only thing we can truly be sure of is it was not Colonel Mustard in the drawing room. Glass Onion: Daniel Craig's Knives Out sequel continues Whodunit craze 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z "When we first moved in the children came into our bedroom screaming and saying 'the castle's flooding' so we took some buckets to where the drips were in our private drawing room," she said. Duchess of Rutland: Powys farmer's daughter's journey to castle-dwelling aristocrat 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z The artist kept the painting, one of four copies she made, in the main drawing room of her house on a fashionable stretch of Rue Saint-Lazare. Commentary: Huntington museum lands a smashing gift, painted by court artist to Marie Antoinette 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z A large fire glows in the background of the drawing room — an architectural designation that succinctly indicates the scale, opulence and lineage of her home in Scotland, the one known simply as Balmoral. Perspective | After a lifetime of vivid symbolism, Queen Elizabeth II faded to gray 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Meanwhile in the drawing room, shadows sprawled across the ceiling and a baubled lamp on a marble-topped table shed light that looked gas-produced, as if it had been beamed directly from the 19th century. Comedy meets history at President Lincoln’s Cottage in D.C. 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Once inside, the king recorded his nine-and-a-half minute address in the blue drawing room, a photo of the queen on the desk beside him. Charles, in First Speech as King, Pledges a Reign of Service to Britain 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z To the men I met, talking to young people about ideas and art seemed like a 19th century activity akin to embroidering in the drawing room. L.A. Affairs: I wanted romance. He made me feel weird about sex. Here's what happened 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z He submitted his resignation to the queen in the drawing room shortly afterward. Truss Takes Office, Promising Britons They Can ‘Ride Out the Storm’ 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Sir Elton John's rendition of Your Song, taped in the red drawing room of Windsor Castle, was genuinely moving. Platinum Party at the Palace: The Royals were the real stars of the Jubilee concert 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z With some of the characters heading to the south of France to investigate a bequeathed holiday villa, she also got to add a continental twist to the usual drawing room styles of the upper-class family. Something old, something new — the costumes of Downton Abbey 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Once Mark Tatum revealed the final selection, the sealed drawing room was opened and Glass bolted out the door, the first to leave. Orlando Magic rediscovers lottery luck to win top pick in NBA draft 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z One of those rooms, The Parlor, is a tastefully appointed drawing room with a small conference table, a collection of taped poetry readings, and sheafs of old poetry journals and chapbooks. From its new Pioneer Square storefront, Open Books strives to become a center for Seattle’s poetry community 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z During the visit, Camilla, an avid Austen reader, viewed the drawing room, where the author read aloud from her very own copy of Pride and Prejudice the day before its publication in 1813. Jane Austen's Chawton home visited by Camilla after roof restoration 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z There, in their large drawing rooms, these hostesses held regular social gatherings called salons. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There's a Victorian drawing room, an office, and of course, a laboratory. Jekyll and Hyde production has a split personality 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z These include fixed drawing room seating with Art Nouveau glass panels, original light fittings and light switches, carved chimney pieces, servant bell pushes and much of the original stencilling to the hall and stairs. Historic England highlights windmill, mud walls and sports hall 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The drawing room flaunts marble columns, a curving staircase and a gilded ceiling. Madhya Pradesh: Husband builds Taj Mahal-like home to wife 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z "Your Royal Highness, family are all gathered in the drawing room," says a man greeting the princess as she says hello to her sons upon arriving at the estate. 'Spencer' trailer sees Princess Diana contemplate divorce from Prince Charles 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Scranton extensively remodeled the house, adding a drawing room. Famous names crowd history of D.C.’s Riggs-Riley House 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Before she left more than 11 years later, she had brought in an architect to make the drawing rooms more stately, redecorated to her own tastes and introduced works of contemporary art. Why Boris Johnson’s Downing Street refurbishment is a big deal in Britain 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z The plans include space for two restaurants, drawing rooms, event space, and a rooftop fitness center and spa. How a Legendary New York Hotel Became a Battleground 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z A Russian captain frequents drawing rooms of World War I Bucharest to find a female spy. Movies on TV this week: 'The Searchers'; 'Forrest Gump' 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Louis XIV of France converted the drawing room at the palace of Versailles into a bedchamber, and gave audiences to dozens of people each day from bed. Work from bed: 'I'm not side-tracked by laundry' 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z But she matched this legal activism with on-the-ground social work, shuttling between Bombay's elite drawing rooms and its teeming slums. The pioneering lawyer who fought for women’s suffrage in India 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z I enjoyed it, because these days I will watch anything that involves a well-appointed drawing room, but it’s the fleetingest of mild pleasures; I barely remembered anything about it the next day. How does Netflix’s new ‘Rebecca’ stack up against the Hitchcock classic and novel? 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z That includes a bright round blue couch in the drawing room upon which Teddy Roosevelt sat while visiting the home of then-Mayor George Parsons in 1907. A look at the story of Cairo, Illinois’ Magnolia Manor 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z On a recent humid August night, Hussain’s family sat in the brightly lit drawing room at their residence at Srinagar’s sprawling Dal Lake, attentively listening to a religious broadcast on cable TV. AP PHOTOS: Pandemic casts pall over Muharram in Kashmir 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z “Those who remain in the cabin are as much at ease and as comfortable as if they were in their parlors or drawing rooms at home.” A modern canal boat is headed to the C&O in Georgetown. It will be powered by both motors and mules. 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z The nation seems different from a few years ago, ready for another revolution, this time from the streets, not from the drawing rooms where it happened in the 1700s. Review: Revolutionary ‘Hamilton’ arrives at an uneasy time 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Great realistic playwrights, such as Ibsen and Chekhov, have allowed the wilder truths of the outdoors to make cameo appearances in their drawing rooms. Why Joaquin Phoenix's Oscar speech doesn't seem so crazy in our coronavirus times 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z It was heated in the winter by coal-burning fireplaces located throughout; the two in the drawing room are made of Carrara marble. A look at the story of Cairo, Illinois’ Magnolia Manor 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z Bell said “B” was on her own with Salmond in the drawing room as the then first minister’s team prepared for first minister’s questions, known as FMQs, the next day. Alex Salmond trial: Scotland's former first minister was 'sexual predator' 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z He laughed, and we entered a large drawing room with a long table in the middle that had been set for coffee. Into the Black Forest With the Greatest Living Artist 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z She says that day, she and Shekhar couldn't visit the children's room - they spent the whole night in the drawing room, wondering what they could have done differently. The film tickets that destroyed a family 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Their demure presence, like that of the maiden aunt in the corner of the drawing room, are, paradoxically, vivid markers of distrust. Opinion | How the ‘Sharing’ Economy Erodes Both Privacy and Trust 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z The broadcast was produced by the BBC and recorded in the green drawing room of Windsor Castle after the general election, but before Prince Philip was admitted to hospital. Queen admits to ‘bumpy’ year in Christmas message 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z More friends file in, and soon the drawing room looks fit to burst with their hopes and secrets, hanging before us like the armada of art on Fefu’s bright-green wall. Women’s Worlds in “Jagged Little Pill” and “Fefu and Her Friends” 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The setting was a drawing room in McLean, Va., 14 miles from the White House, in the home of a late congressman who was a leading voice on foreign affairs. As impeachment hurtles forward, a plea for legal help for government witnesses 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Known as "the drawing room of Europe", St Mark's Square is one of Venice's most popular tourist attractions and the city's major public plaza. The tourist sites hit by Venice's floods 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z According to Bobrick, Theodore Roosevelt kept his birth chart on a table in his drawing room, and Charles de Gaulle and François Mitterrand sought advice from astrologers. Astrology in the Age of Uncertainty 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The pristine space felt less like the conference room it was touted to be and more like a drawing room in a curated home in Bel-Air. For her second act, footwear designer Tamara Mellon is thinking outside the shoe box 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Displayed in a panelled drawing room was original fragmentary footage of the 1939 dig, interlaced with headlines about the onset of war. Revisiting Sutton Hoo, Britain’s Mythical Ship Burial 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z If Harris developed her social conscience in the yellow stucco house in the East Bay, she got her political education in the drawing rooms of Pacific Heights. Kamala Harris Makes Her Case 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z It took place in the hotel’s drawing room, which had a fireplace and votive candles. Yes, the Ladies of “Wine Country” Have a Group Text 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z The drawing room cleared out quickly after a few final reactions. Lucky charms and F-bombs in NBA draft lottery drawing room, as Pelicans learned their Zion destiny 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Ms Huning, who specialises in recreating and restoring historic painted decoration, worked in the hall, drawing room and dining room. 'Awe' over preserved 1880s artisan house 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Turquin said it was “not a picture for a drawing room or a dining room”, and suggested that a museum would be the likely buyer. 'Lost Caravaggio' rejected by the Louvre may be worth £100m 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z When not idling in drawing rooms, members of the leisured class took long walks and stared at trees. Opinion | Let Children Get Bored Again 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z “And here was a hall, with the drawing room on this side. The windows opened onto the garden. Here the dining room.” “Philosophy of the Foot” 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z In Ireland, the designer spent months procuring finishes such as petrol-blue damask silk wallpaper and a mix of Regency and William IV antique furniture for the drawing room of Picerne’s Capard House. Special Report: As their landlord profits, soldiers battle unsafe... 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z In the broadcast, recorded in Buckingham Palace's white drawing room, the Queen will reflect on Jesus Christ's message of peace on earth and goodwill to all. Goodwill theme to Queen's Christmas address 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z The scent even wafted through the fancy drawing rooms of Blair House, the official president’s guesthouse for visiting dignitaries, which Mr. Buatta redid in the 1980s with Mark Hampton. Mario Buatta, tastemaker and designer known as the ‘Prince of Chintz,’ dies at 82 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The main floor includes the formal dining room, with French doors on either end, the drawing room, a solarium and a large foyer. Real estate entrepreneur Don Peebles is still building on his success 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “A fine schoolroom — the use of one of the drawing rooms where the harpsichord is — and a parlor to receive my male visitors in.” This Dublin Block Tells the Story of the City 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Inside the ornate drawing rooms of the neo-Classical Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild were bursts of hypersaturated color, explosive proportions and dazzling feats of construction. ‘A Dress Is Like a Passaporto, No?’ Welcome to Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Valentino 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Pale, almost white traces in the fading grass showed where one corridor led off to the state drawing room, overlooking the lake, and another led to the kitchen and the servants’ realm of the house. The British Heat Wave and Aerial Archeology 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Visitors will be transported to the drawing room of Clarence House, or the prince's Gloucestershire country retreat Highgrove, without leaving the Ball Supper Room of the palace. Charles recreates home at Buckingham Palace 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z The tours featured a new blood drawing room, tele-retinal and tele-health rooms, new patient exam rooms and a room dedicated to women’s health. Williston gets new VA clinic 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z It boasts a grand ballroom off the entryway and a number of private entertaining rooms — like a club, music and drawing room — no doubt a fixture of high society parties in the early 20th century. $26 million Chevy Chase mansion from 1894 hits markets 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z It boasts a grand ballroom off the entryway and a number of private entertaining rooms— like a club, piano and drawing room — no doubt a fixture of high society-parties in the early 20th century. Chevy Chase mansion hits market with $26 million price tag 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Ultimately the monolith reappears in a Regency drawing room; Dullea confronts himself in various stages of antiquity, and our last view is of a thoughtful green embryo with huge haunting eyes. '2001: A Space Odyssey' still blowing minds 50 years later 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Gone are the napkins tortured into swans and the postprandial triage that shunted women to the drawing room while men dealt business. Mastering the Art of the Tense Dinner Party 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z When the design team began its work, the two niches in this drawing room lacked molding and paneling. How Design Pros Brought Order to a Home Filled With 60 Years of ‘Stuff’ 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The music, which accompanies a great deal of the on-screen action, prevents the movie from feeling "too interior, too claustrophobic, too English drawing room," the director said. Jonny Greenwood on the romance and sincerity of his score for 'Phantom Thread' 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z “She had experts to teach me how to talk, to walk, to behave in the dining and drawing room,” he told Conroy. Perspective | Boundary Castle’s grande dame took a shine to young immigrant from Japan 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z Leticia and the other guests spend most of the opera’s three acts mysteriously trapped in the drawing room until she comes up with a plan for breaking the spell. Coloratura hits new high in Ades opera 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z When he arrived at Beacon Hill Farm, he found his mother had been rescued from the drawing room by people living nearby. Great Storm 1987: The day 18 people were killed 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z He noted the mantels in the drawing rooms and the reeded chair rails in the dining room appear to be Colonial Revival additions. This Old Town Alexandria home comes with a few histories 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z In the gloomy drawing room, he moves stiffly around nursing a back injury, ruefully enumerating the ways in which old houses can ruin one’s life. Martin Amis: ‘I miss the English’ 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z The toy is described on the website as a "classic Georgian house" with four bedrooms, a drawing room and "potential for further accommodation". Charity dolls' house on Rightmove fools movers - BBC News 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z Once she’s done, the guests are able to leave the drawing room. Coloratura hits new high in Ades opera 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Later, in a muted, wood-panelled white and grey neoclassical drawing room, there are frothy corseted dresses in Versailles hues: pale pinks, soft blues. Major Paris exhibition celebrates 70 years of Dior fashions 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Prosecutors theorized at trial that Tipton disabled security cameras in the drawing room and installed a self-deleting root kit that rigged the outcome. Court says verdict in Iowa lottery rigging case was flawed 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The main house features a reception hall and a drawing room with a large bay window, pine floors and a carved marble fireplace. House Hunting in … the Lake District, England 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The students are learning about authenticity on the battle field and in the drawing rooms after the battles by actually participating. EXCHANGE: Peru School wants more community involvement 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Moore can lay on Wimsey’s fussy, foppish mannerisms awfully thick as well, like a dandy in an old drawing room comedy rather than a gentleman of true substance. Review: Newlywed sleuths can’t get a break in ‘Busman’s Honeymoon’ 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Her long list of lovers – including such unlikely conquests as Cecil Beaton and Winston Churchill – had prompted certain English drawing rooms to close their doors to her. Sex and art by the Grand Canal: how Peggy Guggenheim took Venice 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Cue loud applause from the elite audience gathered in a Californian drawing room to discuss the secrets of longevity. Why Silicon Valley wants to thwart the grim reaper | John Naughton 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Maybe he imagined his superiors in their cool Mexico City drawing rooms: “On paper one easily draws a line with a ruler and pencil.” Life and death on the Mexican border 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z These created electricity, which traveled to homes and businesses within about one square mile, illuminating drawing rooms without the use of a match for the first time. How New York City Gets Its Electricity 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Jackson’s mansion includes, according to a tour guide in 19th Century dress, the drawing room “where Jackson ushered guests in to brag about himself.” Andrew Jackson was a rich populist who bragged and invited scorn. Trump draws new interest in the 7th president. 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z And as the president-elect spends his days lashing out on Twitter, it’s a relief to retreat into the stuffy drawing rooms of Buckingham Palace, where being well mannered is part of everyone’s job description. The Personality Politics of ‘The Crown’ 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Sitting in his drawing room, with books piled up around us, many of them about World War II, I wanted to hear his thoughts on Brexit. The End of the Anglo-American Order 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z There was certainly plenty to choose from just in the drawing room where iron screens decorated with sunbursts — the centers of which are actually hubcaps — flanked a doorway leading to the home’s former garage. L.A. brand Co celebrates its first shops-in-shop in Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The slow pace of 19th-century novels and memoirs is perfect for an insomnia machine: You fall asleep when the characters are having dinner, and when you wake up they’ve only reached the drawing room. The Insomnia Machine 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z He was ushered up to Wordsworth’s study, which served also as the family’s dining room, the children’s playroom, and the drawing room. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The yacht, 412ft with a crew of 240, was a kind of floating palace, including a state drawing room, a state dining room and the Queen's sitting room as well as numerous bedrooms. Could Brexit bring back the royal yacht? - BBC News 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Upon arriving at his subject’s home, Slim first established a setting—an exquisite drawing room, a sun-drenched garden or an allée of hundred-year-old walnut trees. A New Perspective on the Life and Legacy of Photographer Slim Aarons 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Guests gathered in the drawing room just past the home’s entrance, where the looks on models were being presented. L.A. brand Co celebrates its first shops-in-shop in Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Inside one of the country’s most elegant clubs, in a formal drawing room, the mayor of the nation’s capital asked for something less radical: voting rights and statehood for the District of Columbia. What if you gave a D.C. statehood party at the GOP convention and only one delegate came? 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Classes taught by women, for women, fill the drawing rooms of the city’s best neighborhoods and banquet halls in five-star hotels, as well as classrooms and more modest venues. One of the San Bernardino shooters studied at a women's Islamic school in Pakistan. Here's what it's like to attend one. 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Weigel points out that it turned women, primly cloistered in their drawing rooms, into passive objects of male desire. Why Dating Is Drudgery 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Devil-like red is worn by all of Zamorna’s admirers, just as Rochester’s drawing room is draped in crimson, a symbol of his appetite for luxury and decadence. The secret history of Jane Eyre: Charlotte Brontë's private fantasy stories 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z She’s not interested in straight realism, or in traditional production design, making a perfect Edwardian drawing room, say, for a production of “Lady Windermere’s Fan.” Designing Stages for Shakespeare and Kanye 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room. ‘Big books by blokes about battles’: Why is history still written mainly by men? 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z When Austen's Bennet sisters sit around the drawing room and discuss romantic prospects and suitors and the like, while cleaning their zombie-killing weaponry, the joke lands, because it's matter-of-fact. In 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' the undead lock horns with some very tough Bennet sisters 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Recklessly swirling around the drawing room in a backless green frock, her blond hair a tangle of Medusa curls, Ilona is the hurricane force within this teacup drama. Review: Passions Ignite in ‘Lives of Reason’ at Two River Theater 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z The “Downton” drawing room, formerly all white, was redone, she said, “in five different shades of color, and of the exact period that they wanted for ‘Downton.” A Home That ‘Downton’ Fans Would Love 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Apparently, Huff said, a drawing room is where women would withdraw when men went for brandy and cigars. Atop an Ozark mountain, mansion is built for millennia 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Towers sit at each corner of the square seven-bedroom house, which has two drawing rooms, a library and two kitchens. Five Picasso murals are part of castle for sale in the south of France 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z The English drawing room mystery is the simplest. Sherlock Holmes Was an Economist in Disguise 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z She first met Charles Babbage and one of his innovative calculating machines, the Difference Engine, at a party in his London drawing room, when she was 17. Ada Lovelace: Letters shed light on tech visionary - BBC News 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z My son was finishing his homework at the dining table, which overlooks the drawing room and the kitchen. BBC man in India child worker rescue drama - BBC News 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The group shot, taken in the drawing room of the Queen’s private Norfolk residence, shows Prince William, Prince George, the duchess holding her daughter and the Queen. Princess Charlotte by Mario Testino – christening photographs released 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Shame also stalked the drawing rooms of polite society, whenever a writer like Dickens or Henry Mayhew exposed the living conditions of the "great unwashed", half-starved and crammed into stinking, unsanitary slums. How did we get to this welfare state? - BBC News 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Black was in the drawing room last year and remembers the tension. Lakers hope lottery balls bounce their way 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Off to the left is the drawing room, with a marble and tile fireplace, cornice moldings and an elaborate ceiling rose surrounding a chandelier. House Hunting in ... Ireland 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z This may be the first time in history that a column about digital storage must be rendered as a kind of drawing room comedy. Move Over, Clinton. Albany Email Farce Takes Center Stage. 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z "They're behaving as if they're ordering a drink in the drawing room of Downton Abbey. It's not for the Conservatives to start telling people how these debates are going to happen," he said. Cameron accused of 'running scared' for refusing TV debate 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z He managed to maintain a flowing musical line while I teleported him from one virtual venue to another, a drawing room mutating into a cathedral. The Photoshop of Sound 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Dickens and Austen added a fireplace and drawing room. Does Fiction Need to Become Less ... Fictional? The hall offers access to three large reception rooms: the library, drawing room and dining room, where the walls are covered in gold leaf. An Art Historian’s Modernist Gem 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Sitting at the keyboard of a grand piano, Lourdes played his visitor into an ornate drawing room with a number from the musical "Cats." Young philanthropist draws celebrities, the Dalai Lama -- and questions 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z After receiving a few of these trademark Salmond stares whenever England or the English are mentioned, even the genteel surroundings of a Georgian drawing room in staunchly pro-union Edinburgh can feel like a dangerous place. Alex Salmond Plots His Next Moves Against the British State A startling photograph in Hook’s book shows her Chicago drawing room in the 1890s, about the size of a department store floor, walls completely covered with paintings hung three deep. Monet painting expected to set new record at Sotheby’s auction 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z The famous orchestra conductor Charles Hallé gave piano lessons to Elizabeth's daughter Marianne in their drawing room. The 'fearful' Mrs Gaskell 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z He recently persuaded the Earl of Moray to exchange his drawing room for his dining room at his Scottish castle, rooms that had served that way for some 150 years. Plain English 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z We are sitting in Scott's impressive drawing room at Abbotsford and Kelly gestures to what appears to be the finely carved, oak-wood ceiling above us. Shaking off the 'kilted straitjacket' 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Spencer Potter nicely furnishes a cozy drawing room complete with gothic touches and several visual surprises. A Review of ‘Blithe Spirit’ and ‘Zorro!’ in Cape May 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z An enlarged and handwritten French manuscript of the play wallpapers the family’s drawing room, while the polished, oval floor rests atop a layer of oversize books. A Review of ‘The Learned Ladies’ in Morris Township 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Scattered throughout the dining room and the drawing room are games from the 1920s through the ’40s. Party like it’s 1921 at the Woodrow Wilson House But it doesn't stop me fantasising about what I would do if I could pull down that clumpy conservatory those idiots have tacked on to my lovely Georgian drawing room. Digital confessions: Instagram bores, dog video addicts and property obsessives 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z The conversations in the play are very much like those I’ve heard in Georgetown drawing rooms, including my own, over the years. My ‘City of Conversation’ It’s not unusual to hear this sentiment in New Delhi drawing rooms these days. Letter From India: Strong Hand Hasn't Fared Well in India 2014-04-22T17:49:44Z “It is high time that the educated and affluent do something outside drawing room conversations.” India Ink: Mumbai’s Business Community Tries New Enterprise: Politics 2014-04-21T13:26:16Z But the translation of her cause from one of prominence and even modishness in liberal Delhi drawing rooms may be lost in a chaotic state with little stability. India Ink: Tribal Activist Candidate Poses a Problem for Aam Aadmi 2014-03-27T05:35:51Z Most papers agree that the case brought discussions about violence against women into people's drawing rooms, but feel attitudes still need to change. Indian media: Has Delhi rape changed anything? 2013-12-16T07:10:44Z We liked to think we were a family and people coming in were watching and the family were in the drawing room. McCririck performed 'pantomime act' 2013-10-01T13:30:28Z “A genius in the business office may be, and often is, utterly unable outside of it to say boo to a goose—both in the drawing room and on the platform,” he said. Schumpeter: Cronies and capitols 2013-08-08T15:00:00Z A square in a capital city is a congress of the wild, a drawing room of the dispossessed. From Trafalgar to Taksim, the politics of the square puts the wind up power 2013-06-12T06:00:14Z Though Nehru was Prime Minister, it was the new Queen of England, Elizabeth II, whose portrait presided in the main drawing room. Jhumpa Lahiri: “Brotherly Love.” 2013-06-03T04:00:00Z The Hindustan Times,, says things are looking up in urban areas as drawing room and "office cubicle conversations" are changing and, hopefully, so are attitudes. Indian media: Has Delhi rape changed anything? 2013-12-16T07:10:44Z These high streets are our front rooms, our drawing rooms. Women's Institute votes to launch a campaign to rescue local shops 2013-06-02T08:00:14Z She recoils at the “smelly natives,” calls most things “beastly” and prefers to laze in a drawing room perfumed by “chintz and dying flowers.” Katha Journal: Orwell’s House Links Myanmar to Its Burmese Days 2013-05-24T01:41:19Z In the gloomy drawing room were oil paintings of old generals and one of Princess Diana, painted in the 1980s. Welcome to Woolwich 2013-05-23T12:37:00Z Like an Edwardian drawing room audience assembled around a piano, the listeners clustered, awaiting its tik-tik refrain. Letter From Europe: Tweeting, of the More Natural Kind 2013-05-06T13:52:19Z The spokeswoman said the monarch had watched the 3D footage, which had been filmed in Buckingham Palace's white drawing room, and thought it "absolutely lovely". Queen's 3D Christmas speech: monarch dons jewelled glasses to view footage 2012-12-24T07:00:10Z She enters the wood-panelled drawing room fresh from a football cup parade and dressed up, she explains, for an evening date with her husband. Could a white woman ever be elected South Africa's president? 2012-11-13T08:23:31Z The visitor is warmly greeted at the door and directed into what are essentially four drawing rooms, one with a cozy fire with people sitting around on settees. An Oasis In Dublin To Ponder 2012-10-15T20:50:41Z After his expulsion from Kabul he traversed the Muslim world, from the mosques of Cairo to the drawing rooms of Istanbul, where he importuned the sultan to launch Muslim resistance to the West. India Ink: A Greater Asia 2012-09-24T05:46:51Z A senior Vietnamese Communist Party official, speaking in the ornate drawing room of a French colonial building, compared the country’s economic problems to the market crash 15 years ago that flattened many economies in Asia. In Vietnam, Growing Fears of an Economic Meltdown 2012-08-22T14:51:02Z It is certainly true that the wealthy of Dublin tend to be snobbish and that the huge made-in-the-H-blocks Celtic cross in McFeely's drawing room window looks incongruous. Tom McFeely: from IRA hunger striker to bankrupt millionaire property developer 2012-08-10T22:00:50Z Once upon a time information was passed, whisper by whisper, through drawing rooms and kitchens, down streets and lanes, around public houses, across washing lines, into Parliament and the Royal Court. Dear Mariella: My nephew has been writing on Facebook about his dad having terminal cancer, and the family feels it's an invasion of privacy 2012-06-30T23:07:08Z The ceremony took place in our drawing room. Retracing Aung Suu Kyi's UK life 2012-06-19T05:06:26Z After all, the Cup was created in the late 19th century, the time of drawing rooms, of men repairing to a private salon with their cigars and snifters after dinner, and of curtained railroad cars. Essay: A Road Trip With Lord Stanley’s Cup 2012-06-09T17:29:50Z A friend of mine was sitting a few years since in the drawing room at her country seat; there was a door at each end, leading to other rooms, both of which were open. Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas 2012-04-21T02:00:22.650Z The interior consists of several spacious levée and drawing rooms, besides other state and domestic apartments. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z The interior woodwork of the house is beautifully carved, especially the drawing room, guest chamber, and staircase. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z He transformed a high-ceilinged faux-French drawing room into a strikingly elegant space with red-lacquered shelves and brass trim befitting a client who had given considerable philanthropic support to libraries, especially the New York Public Library. Albert Hadley, Interior Decorator to High Society, Dies at 91 2012-03-31T04:07:06Z However, I advise you not to speak too freely of these things at table, or in a drawing room if you do not like to have people making fun of you, more or less discreetly. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Some of these trade-offs are inevitable, but I think that if it becomes all drawing room comedies and not gritty theater, it would be devastating. The Euro Crisis Is Hurting Cultural Groups 2012-03-24T21:55:05Z And so when the day came and I stood outside the opening door of the drawing room, and heard voices and laughter within, I was hurt and aggrieved beyond measure. The King's Stratagem and Other Stories 2012-03-22T02:00:40.343Z They found the major’s drawing room sparkling with military uniforms. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z They wanted more modern quarters with a good deal of open space, so Mr. Hadley demolished a drawing room wall, replaced it with glass and installed a travertine staircase. Albert Hadley, Interior Decorator to High Society, Dies at 91 2012-03-31T04:07:06Z He heard "Florence" and "the old drawing room;" and that was enough. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z To the right was a handsome drawing room with a fine mantel, before which Mrs. Madison was accustomed to stand to receive her guests. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z In that quiet drawing room by the side of his placid companion, with nothing whatever in their surroundings to account for his emotion, his panic-stricken face shocked me inexpressibly. The King's Stratagem and Other Stories 2012-03-22T02:00:40.343Z When the three women found themselves in the drawing room Lydia Grigorievna lost no time in turning the conversation on the arrested Nihilist. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z The chivalry of street boyhood did not, as might have been foreseen, prevent the urchins from gratifying their sense of fun at her expense in the drawing room of the amateur teacher. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Its lavish drawing rooms and ancient sumak rugs show the mix of western and eastern influence in Georgia’s culture. Crowd-Free Caucasus Draws Adventurous Hiker to Tusheti, Georgia 2012-02-22T05:27:10Z When the writer of this entered the drawing room at about eight o'clock, it was crowded to its full capacity. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z In the hall he stood for a moment in deep thought; then sagely shook his head several times at a stuffed fox and joined the party in the drawing room. The King's Stratagem and Other Stories 2012-03-22T02:00:40.343Z In short order, they found themselves in the drawing room of the prominent dealer Charles Ratton, who showed the Prices this piece, displayed beneath a spotlight on a Lazy Susan. | Upper East Side: Upper East Side/Habitats - A Loft Aesthetic in a Chintz World 2012-02-18T10:00:05Z To-day a lady visiting the House of Commons during debate has her 5 o’clock tea as comfortably as in her own drawing room. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The two angles of the principal front contain the ladies' drawing room, and the gentlemen's sitting room, the former forty by thirty-two feet, the latter thirty-eight feet square. Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time 2012-02-13T03:00:18.260Z I was asked as I was ushered us into the drawing room of Government House on the seafront in Stanley. The Falklands egg shortage 2012-02-11T11:58:10Z So he was established in the drawing room, a pretty, cozy room, and told himself it was a terrible nuisance. The King's Stratagem and Other Stories 2012-03-22T02:00:40.343Z When the men came down into the drawing room, Mr. Crabb discovered that Miss Wharton had carefully ensconced herself in the center of a perimeter of skirts, which defied disintegration and apportionment. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z The costly flowers that decorate the drawing rooms or dining rooms during the season are not discarded as rubbish when the festivity is over. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z It lies between the dining and drawing rooms, and looks bright and cheerful, with its amply-filled bookcases, comfortable lounging-chairs, and little tables. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z She drew away and went in the drawing room, saying aloud: "Now I think everything is ready—we can sit down now." The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The sun has driven the less energetic members of the Quaritch family into the cool gloom of the drawing room, where the open windows are shaded by the great cedar. The King's Stratagem and Other Stories 2012-03-22T02:00:40.343Z The long cabins on the upper deck were removed and parts sent to Toronto, where they now are the upper drawing room of the Chicora. A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River 2012-01-11T03:00:29.487Z Irish cabins supplied a modish industry to English drawing rooms in drawn linen work. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z It entered the world as precisely and as perfectly as the saintly wife of a great financier might enter her grandmother's drawing room. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z When they had changed their clogs, and Emily had taken off her brown-paper leggings, and he his leather ones, they were not anxious to go into the drawing room. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z He considered the offer, eying me the while with the same disfavor which he had exhibited in the drawing room. The King's Stratagem and Other Stories 2012-03-22T02:00:40.343Z On the right, splendid mahogany folding-doors gave into the dining room, and the corresponding room on the left was evidently the drawing room. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z The drawing room on the first floor was in the occupation of the women kind of their relatives who were just about to refresh themselves after shopping with a cup of tea. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The drawing rooms were too small, after midnight; one walked along stepping on the trains of women's gowns. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z There is something about a lighthouse that you don't get in a modern drawing room. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Saves time in the drawing room, and mistakes in the shops. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z Still gripping her shoe horn Bab raced down the stairs, and parted the portières that hung between the drawing room and hall. The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies 2011-11-26T03:00:16.047Z He was even attacked in clubs and drawing rooms by fine and fashionable people for being ready to compromise the dignity and disturb the equilibrium of the British Crown. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z He found even a certain attractiveness in the architecture of these drawing rooms, because of their vague familiarity, recalling the pleasant days of his life. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z “Yes, Hazel,” and as they passed into the drawing room he bit his lip in an endeavor to appear unperturbed. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z I purchased at auction to-day a Pier glass with a Marble top, to occupy the place in front of the mirror in the drawing room, as you requested. Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton 2011-11-15T03:00:20.413Z He took a step toward her then—a sudden burst of weird music floated up from the gloomy drawing room. The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies 2011-11-26T03:00:16.047Z He is the chartered libertine of the dining rooms and drawing rooms of the great. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z And before he could offer it to her the young Princess took it, and led him off to the buffet in the drawing room. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Then the Queen took Dot and Tot to the drawing room of the palace, where the children had leisure to thank her and to admire their pretty crowns. Dot and Tot of Merryland 2011-11-12T03:00:34.677Z A thin and stoop-shouldered old man, with a kindly gleam in his sunken eyes, gave The Phantom a warm handclasp when, three days later, he walked into the drawing room of the Hardwick’s residence. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z When Mr. Stuart and the officers entered the drawing room of the countess’s villa they saw the old man who had before menaced the two women standing threateningly in front of them. The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies 2011-11-26T03:00:16.047Z |
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