yester-year

Updated: May 9, 2025

Beerbohm, of course, was not the only writer of his period who appeared as the champion of artifice. A contemporary, one Richard Le Gallienne, an eminent Pose Fancier, has committed himself somewhere to the statement that 'The bravest men that ever trod this planet have worn corsets. But what is so far away as yester-year? In 1894, Mr.

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