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...mock military struggle’s arrival is particularly distasteful considering that this hallowed bank of the Charles has, over the course of its grand history, served as a sanctuary for effete, bloated Brahmins interested in evading combat of any kind. Alas, gone are the days when Cabot and Crowninshield could titter lazily about the Lowells over high tea, leaving the bayonets to the plebs. Our aristocratic predecessors had honed repression to an art, ensuring that the intramural conflict was restricted to a biting comment about outmoded décor, or perhaps spilt sherry...
...years 1860 and 1864 and the inability of the members of the various athletic teams to procure crimson for their insignia, magenta was, of necessity, accepted as a poor substitute,” wrote John Blanchard, Class of 1891, in The H Book of Harvard Athletics. Frederic C. Crowninshield, Class of 1866, who was a cousin of the rower who bought the original kerchiefs with Eliot, wrote in 1865 that students could not find crimson because magenta was so in vogue, and thus had to buy the more popular color, “though abhorring...
...editor of Vanity Fair looked up from his desk. And up. And up. Looming above him was a young man who stood six-foot-seven and was wearing kilts. He said he wanted a job, and Editor Frank Crowninshield, delighted to have such a piece of bric-a-brac on the premises, stowed him in an office occupied by two other odd objects-Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley...
...point of the book. In "Leaves Culled From the Journal of a Lady of Fashion," the life of Ward McAllister's day comes through better than his memoirs relate it. "Breakfast at Delmonico's--1893" tells of young gentlemen spending lively, idle afternoons in days long since past. Frank Crowninshield, longtime editor of Vanity Fair, considers society from 1888 to the post war age in "Ten Thousand Nights in a Dinner Coat." Dividing his recollections into the Rustic, Pompous, Boom and Jazz periods, he notes it was at one time fashionable "to be dull, to be opulent, to be stuffed...
...himself a full-fledged cartoonist making $40 a week. When he became enraptured by the Redlining I.W.W., the Tribune dropped him, but by then he was established. He worked for every sort of publication, from the New Masses to Spur, from Dial to Vanity Fair, where the aristocratic Frank Crowninshield fondly called him "Comrade Bill...