H. L. Mencken rose to ask, "Would you consider me a Pegler stooge?" Mencken more or less invited Wallace to laugh the letters off as an indiscretion, but Wallace was incapable of doing so.
I have no objection to a nice bra, still less to being invited to remove one.
Anyway, besides the toffs, there are two less plutocratic guests invited to the dinner party, one an unsuccessful and bookish young barrister, Gabriel Northwood, the other a jobbing literary journalist, R Tranter.
Although employers like the idea of reducing these holiday promises, they will be less pleased to be invited to foot the bill.
Women are less likely to be invited to speak at conferences than men, and both female and male academics have been found to have implicit bias in this regard, too.
Once you become known in the hinterland between academia and policy, you will need to do this less as you are invited to more things and your name snowballs.
Research found that people of foreign origin and those who lived in underprivileged areas were less likely to be invited to an interview if their CV was anonymous, possibly because allowances could not be made for poor qualifications or faults due to disadvantaged backgrounds.
One study found that job applicants with stereotypically African-American names were less likely to be invited to be interviewed.
Respondents who had smoked >15 cigarettes per day for >25 years or >10 cigarettes per day for >30 years, those who still smoked, or those who had quit 10 or less years ago were invited to participate in the trial (van Iersel et al, 2007).
Less predictably, they were also invited to the dinner afterward at the home of the collector Lang Baumgarten.
