At different spots in the room stood the six resident geniuses whose presence in the home Mr Pett has such strong objection, and in addition to these she had collected so many more of a like breed from the environs of Washington Square that the air was clamorous with the hoarse cries of futurist painters, esoteric Buddhists, vers libre poets, interior decorators and stage reformers, sifted in among the more convention members of society who had come to listen to them. Men with new religions drank tea with women with new hats. Apostles of free love expounded their doctrines to persons who had been practising them for years without realizing it. All over the room throats were being trained and minds broadened.
- P.G. Wodehouse, Piccadilly Jim, pp.132-133
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