Grace's mother keeps a silver spoon in a box on the mantelshelf: "To sell it, Ma says, would be selling the fact that my ma was lady enough to own a silver spoon".
Hollywood itself also wins here, by reminding us how far it has come since the sight of Curtis and Lemmon dressed up as ladies was enough to prompt cries of moral outrage.
"Enough ladies," Mr. Aronsohn said.
Today, the theater has soft seats upholstered in red velvet replacing the hard benches, and enough ladies' rooms to ensure a timely return after intermission.
Let's all hope that these representatives are big enough ladies and gentlemen to step from behind silly and nonsensical excuses to demonstrate the courage to do what is right for the financial crisis now in play.
She's now 35 and a jobbing actress: not so high-profile that she can call the shots like Hollywood's half-dozen leading ladies, but respected enough to work with some very good directors.
This was an old-school Downton moment, the like of which we've seen too rarely in this series, nicely punctuated by the scene where Sir Richard used the word "bastard" and was rebuked by the Earl of Grantham: "Steady on, sir, the ladies have had enough shock for one day".
"Enough ladies, I get it.
It's got New York, smoke rings, and enough ladies for one of Skip's all-female orgies.
