Quotes by Frank Crowninshield - Page 1

The only perfect climate is bed.
Frank Crowninshield / Journalist
Bed
Climate
Perfect
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Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
Frank Crowninshield / Journalist
Men
Genius
Originality
Courage Women Men
Young Men
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What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.
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America
Century
France
Marie
Mary
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... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.
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Hobbies
People
Talking
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For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit... We mean to appeal to their intellects... and we hereby announce ourselves as determined and bigoted feminists.
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Determined
Missionary
Noble
Announce
Appeal
Bigoted
Feminists
Hereby
Intend
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Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly.
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Believe
Two
Vanity
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We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.
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Discovery
Names
Reading
Sauce
French
Madame
Mixed
Yearn
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My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.
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Loneliness
Sixty
Youth
Time Great Youth
Lady
Provider
Reached
Seduce
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In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.'
Frank Crowninshield / Journalist
Shuffle
Back Door
Calls
Stern
Hollering
Maid
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Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.
Frank Crowninshield / Journalist
American Life
Cheerfulness
Devotion
Great Change
Instance
Laughter
Life Happiness Change
Forms
Delights
Let Us
Undergone
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I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic interest. Everything has been chosen entirely because of its aesthetic significance; its form, feeling, structure, and plastic values.
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Aesthetic
Chosen
Historic
Plastic
Significance
Structure
Utility
Anything Never Everything
Africa
Collected
Entirely
Object
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My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word snob comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.
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Book
Country
Smart
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My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.
Frank Crowninshield / Journalist
Cuisine
Dresses
Immense
Position
Smart
Rare
Correct
Dances
Derives
Gardens
Houses
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