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masculine pose that excluded women from everything but the sex act and domestic activity. The Big Four, those powerful women who adored Harry Lehr, liked him because he shared their interests and took them seriously. Outside of what the men in their lives could bring them in the way of material goods, Harry’s male 46 QUEST
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contribution was far more interesting and engaging than the macho attitude they had to live with. Harry Lehr knew this. It was, in a very real way, his saving grace—and grace it was. Although, somewhere in there, it was his sadness too. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr, despite her protestations in her volume on life with Harry
Lehr, seemed to be comfortable accommodating her husband’s rules and behavior. Her life was interesting and, as it turns out, she was a remarkable social documentarian and writer. Her portraits of that time and players, and her precise description of that world, left her as a kind of Saint-Simon of her era. In
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1936, she remarried to a Lord Decies. He was the widower, coincidentally, of Vivien, Lady Decies, née Vivien Gould, daughter of Edith Gould. Edith Gould had been the lady who introduced Elizabeth Drexel to Harry Lehr, all those years before at the Metropolitan Opera House on that fateful night in 1900. u
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