Posted in Drawings and Sketches | Tagged cape, gentleman, portrait | Leave a comment Walter Graham Grieve artist Posted on 04/10/2024 by ronald972 This week, I came across a set of three drawings, set together in one frame. Done by the same artist as illustrations to a children’s ...
Constitutional history was taught by the scion of a famous German intellectual family who’d escaped Hitler before the war, but the name of this gentleman was so long that generations of philistine and irreverent cadets just called him ‘Footy’, which he pretended not to know. He also preten...
In a typical example of not looking before you leap; as he cleared the railing he realized that the ground was much further down than he expected. Thankfully, the moonlit night helped greatly as he prepared for a crash-landing, grabbing for tree limbs and such to break his fall. 00 hit...
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The obsessions of a dapper Victorian gentleman led to one of the most breathtaking discoveries in archeology: the Palace of Minos at Knossos. As the brilliant curator of the famed Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Sir Evans was already well known when, at 50, he embarked on his most celebrated ro...
The author is a well-to-do English gentleman who was born about 1825. Though he remains anonymous, sometimes going by the name "Walter" in the text, some speculate that the actual author was a Mr. H. Spencer Ashbee, a famous Victorian bibliographer and collector of erotica. The 11-...
Dad fought a war, found his love, and begot two daughters. All without a red “S” of cotton on his chest. And Saturdays he gets his haircut as I watch, loving that man in the mirror. Innocently, I store these gentle memories in the jars of my mind while learning to man the fast...
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“I don’t like to bad mouth a guest when they’re in our van,” I said to ‘L’, “but if I didn’t know any better I’d say my gentleman friend is expecting to have sex with me.” ‘L’s beau looked stunned as if I shouldn’t have expected anything else. “What makes ...
Tucked away down a dark alley behind a nondescript door, the dimly-lit space transports you to the halcyon days of Victorian-era London with its enormous vintage leather couches, antique art and dark-wood interiors. The lounge has an intimate feel, and its gentleman’s-club-turned-cigar-...