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_soirée_, at Willis's rooms, formerly known as Almack's; so at least I was told.
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The Melbourne 'Almack's' is to be complimented on the moral courage with which its directors have resisted the claims for admission of some of the wealthy unwashed and other unsuitables.
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Our leader has his hand upon the latch of 'Almack's,' and calls to us from the bottom of the steps; for the assembly-room of the Five
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'Almack's', the very clever and personal picture of fashionable life, published in 1826, is dedicated
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Life, '' Almack's, 'and other fashionable novels. "
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He rejects her extortionist proposal, but changes his mind when he realizes there is substance beyond Almack inside this courageous young woman.
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Almack, she presently revived, and, congratulating herself that she should now be able to speak of a place too fashionable for disdain, she asked her, in a manner somewhat more assured, if she was a subscriber to his assemblies?
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How Lady Almack bullied the other ladies in the drawing-room (when no gentlemen were present): never asked you back to dinner again: left her card by her footman: and took not the slightest notice of your wife and daughters at Lady
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There has been an Almack since I wrote, but no events.
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Almack gave his name to the Assembly Rooms, but the management was entirely vested in the hands of a committee of lady patronesses of the highest rank and fashion, who distributed the ten-guinea tickets.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
jaime_d commented on the word Almack
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution -- it's the name of a fashionable London social club of the time. "An Almack's Masquerade is not nothing; in more genial ages, your Christmas Guisings, Feasts of the Ass, Abbots of Unreason, were a considerable something: since sport they were; as Almacks may still be sincere wish for sport."
March 6, 2011