And in the scratchy old phonograph recordings Nellie Melba made for the Gramophone and Typewriter Company in the comfort of her drawing-room in Cumberland Terrace (ca. 1904), you can clearly hear the voice of the sound engineer from behind a screen give the diva her cue by shouting “Go!” when the clunky recording apparatus was successfully set in slightly arduous motion. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Extra chairs had been brought into the great drawing-room, and in all there must have been two hundred Philomaths that sat down to hear Ernest. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Gentlemen in this country do smoke, when at home, in the drawing-room and dining-room j there is no doubt about that; that is, when the women of the family do not object. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This is the interior of the drawing-room on the ground floor, to the right of the facade, as it must have been in about 1912. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And thereafter no question was raised when Ah Chun elected to enter his brilliant drawing-room in blue silk robe, wadded slippers, and black silk skull-cap with red button peak, or when he chose to draw at his slender-stemmed silver-bowled pipe among the cigarette - and cigar - smoking officers and civilians on the broad verandas or in the smoking room. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And there is a splendid climax when Hildegard Bechtler's drawing-room set becomes a minefield in which lights sizzle and flare, pictures fall and even a chandelier ominously descends in Phantom of the Opera style. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The assumption is understandable, given that we see him at one memorable point shooting holes in his drawing-room wall, out of sheer boredom. ❋ Unknown (2010)
His behavior in our drawing-room reminded me of a careful bull in a china shop. 1 ❋ Unknown (2010)
On arrival, ladies and gentlemen would take off their cloaks in the cloakroom or leave them in the hall with the servant before entering the drawing-room, where the host and hostess awaited them. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In one of the last glimpses we have of Nellie in the diary, she is standing “by the drawing-room door in the full light, white & pink, with her funny rather foolish mulish face.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
Medynsky in her drawing-room of beauty, or in the foulest depths of the first chance courtesan's heart. ❋ Unknown (2010)
So many women smoke themselves, that in some houses even the drawing-room is thrown open to Princess Nicotine. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Dinner was over, and the company had reassembled in the drawing-room when it happened. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It looks like a Victorian drawing-room drama until the orchestra appears behind a scrim and the actors begin singing. ❋ Ellen Gamerman (2011)
Painters and Their Work, (1979), lays down the difficulties female artists faced: competing obligations of marriage and motherhood; the restrictions against women seeking art training; male willingness to accept women's painting only as a benign drawing-room recreation but not as a professional activity for monetary gain, which might put a woman in the public eye; and perceptions of women's intellectual inability to tackle "serious," large-scale historical, mythical, or biblical subjects. ❋ Unknown (2010)
However, the advancements in media and citizen journalism has made it difficult for the Ministers and their gangs to cover up their blunders and drawing-room statements. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Sometimes the gentlemen are invited into another apartment for smoking, and rejoin the ladies in the drawing-room after they have disposed of their cigars. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At that time one Felice Van Verdighan, accompanied by two maids and a lap-dog, with another maid for the lap-dog,1 entered a drawing-room on a Pullman,2 and a few minutes later was speeding west. ❋ Unknown (2010)
