Word: cond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young man's game. . . . And a newspaperman is young only as long as he can successfully kid himself. I kidded myself because I kept on thinking smugly that I was Somebody. . . . [ Manhattan newspapermen] love to come into the office of a morning to remark. -met Noel Coward at Condé Nast's roof party last night and Noel tells me -.' Or, '- So John D. Jr., was standing in the stern of Vincent Astor's yacht (he's a swell guy when you get to know him) and I said...
...award. Conspicuously absent from the exhibition are the works of greatly famed artists. Among the well known names represented were: Sir John Lavery, who paints interiors, genre and Lady Lavery; Jean Louis Forain, famed French satirist; Bernard Boutet de Monvel, chic portraitist, one-time fashion artist for Publisher Condé Nast (Vogue, Vanity Fair). Many of the painters are hitherto unknown to the U. S. One of them-Mme. Tamara de Lempicka -attracted much attention with her monotone grey Portrait of Doctor B(oucard), as meticulously drawn as a machine design. Mme. de Lempicka is a Polish woman who lives...
Last fortnight's Foundation news was as stimulating to old-established imaginations as it probably will be hard to "sell" to the kind of imaginations it aimed to benefit: Condé Nast, eastern smartchart publisher (House & Garden, Vogue, Vanity Fair) promised the Foundation $2,500 per year for three years for unique traveling fellow-ships-unique because all the traveling will be done, not among European chalets, chateaux and cathedrals, but in the U. S. among barns, grain-elevators, oil-cracking plants...
Died. Mrs. William Frederick Nast, 85, mother of Publisher Condé Nast (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden); at her son's home in Port Washington...
...presented Miss Innocence, with the late Anna Held (milk baths). Of it Theatre Magazine said: ". . . Bare legs and suggestive humor . . . sheath gowns [padlocked] to nothing at all." Also in 1909, famed Composer Richard Strauss's Selome was sung and danced by Mary Garden. Spurred by this event, Publisher Condé Nast's newly-acquired feminine smartchart Vogue editorialized...