The ladies’ restroom at work has a push-open door; there is no latch and no handle on the outside.
—
Judith Martin,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Oct. 2026
The Gilded Age would generally prefer that nothing disrupt the basic contours of its serene status quo, where ladies in hats sit in drawing rooms and deliver smiling rebukes of one another’s decor.
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