{"date":"July 7","id":"07-07","intro":["The painted lips of the eighteenth century ladies and gallants vied with one another in whispering scathing gossip, in gleefully furthering the destruction of a good name. Sheridan depicts this gay world with a brilliant spicy pen."],"minutes":24,"readings":[{"author":"Richard Brinsley Sheridan","end":128,"start":115,"volume":18,"work":"School for Scandal"}],"slug":"july-7","status":"proofread","title":"Scandal That Lurked Behind Lace and Powder","url":"/harvard-classics/july-7/","words":4822}