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The Colony Club is a women-only private social club in New York City. Founded in 1903 by Florence Jaffray Harriman, wife of J. Borden Harriman, as the first social club established in New York City by and for women, it was modeled on similar gentlemen's clubs. Today, men are admitted as guests. [2]
The club movement became part of Progressive era social reform, which was reflected by many of the reforms and issues addressed by club members. [4] According to Maureen A. Flanagan, [5] many women's clubs focused on the welfare of their community because of their shared experiences in tending to the well-being of home-life.
King Candaules of ancient Lydia, according to the story, conceived a plot to show his unaware naked wife to his servant Gyges. After discovering Gyges while he was watching her naked, Candaules' wife ordered him to choose between killing himself and killing her husband in order to repair the vicious mischief. [3] [4] [5]
Exhibitionism is the act of exposing in a public or semi-public context one's intimate parts – for example, the breasts, genitals or buttocks. As used in psychology and psychiatry, it is substantially different.
A sale a century earlier in Brighton involved "eight pots of beer" and seven shillings (£40 in 2025); [35] and in Ninfield in 1790, a man who swapped his wife at the village inn for half a pint of gin changed his mind and bought her back later. [43] Public wife sales [e] were sometimes attended by huge crowds.
Ed Howe wanted $25,000 for his Tango Club, but accepted just $3,000. [6] Over time, Harrah tried other locations and expanded his casino on Virginia Street several times. A hotel tower opened in 1969. [7] At Lake Tahoe, Harrah purchased George's Gateway Club in 1955 to expand his empire.
Melanie Griffith just got on board with the sheer dress trend. The 58-year-old actress defied age on Wednesday night when she hit an event in Los Angeles wearing a sheer dress without a bra.
In 1790 the house was described as 'Almack's Hotel'. From 1796 until the early 1820s it was occupied by the firm of Ransom and Morland, and from 1822 to 1832 by the Travellers Club. From 1841 to 1845 part of the house was occupied by the London Library. The freehold of the house had been acquired in 1785 by William Almack's son, and it ...