Juli 10, 2011
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MATTERS having been thus satisfactorily arranged as to the future management of the club, and Mr. Crockford, having become free from all interference and control by the committee, had leisure for other pursuits and pastime; and he resumed, within moderate … Weiterlesen
Juli 3, 2011
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Last week we conducted the reader into the backslums of poverty and crime in the purlieus of fast-decaying St. Giles’s, soon we hope to start from its ruins improved in cleanliness and beauty. This number we step into St. James’s … Weiterlesen
Juli 11, 2010
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But after all, the only clubs where any thing like fellowship exists are the dandy ones of Crockford’s, White’s, and the Travellers; the glittering arid particles of those useless sandbanks, being indurated into something resembling substance only by their want … Weiterlesen
Januar 19, 2010
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Many are the supplementary distinctions which, in England (denominated by Napoleon ‘the great chandler’s shop of Europe’), are accepted as a substitute for Caste,, nay, which are even admitted to possess a species of arbitrary value, beyond all computation in … Weiterlesen
Januar 19, 2010
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A Few years ago, a clever satire was indited by a person every way qualified for the task, entitled ‘The Man of Ton,’ professing to elucidate the mysterious nature of that remarkable animal, while exhibiting him to the microscopic scrutiny … Weiterlesen
Dezember 21, 2009
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In the days of Dandyism (an epoch so completely obsolete, that it might serve instead of ‘In the time of King Arthur,’ to date the commencement of a fairy tale !), it was an indispensable evidence of exclusivism, for even … Weiterlesen
September 14, 2009
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There is a noble German ballad, written (if we remember rightly}- by a certain Von Zedlitz (Powder), which describes, with all the weird imagination of a Doré, how at the twelfth hour of the night a little ghostly drummer once … Weiterlesen
Oktober 14, 2007
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At Crockford’s, the Queen of the gaming-clubs, as much as L20.000 had been known to be lost and won in a single evening. Crockford himself had risen from making his living as a small fishmonger to presiding as ‘the Scourge … Weiterlesen