Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin, Publisher Conde Nast told Vogue's Editor Edna Woolman Chase and Vanity Fair's Editor Frank Crowninshield that he had just found the ideal art director for his U. S. string of swank magazines. The latest candidate had clinched the job by the calm disdain with which he dismissed able, dapper Publisher Nast's theories on illustration and makeup. This Young Turk was in fact a young Turk, by name Mehemed Fehmy Agha. That was ten years ago. Last week PM, the lively little magazine for production managers and art directors, devoted its latest issue...
...minority representation, applauded, jeered. When the uproar was over, tough Charlie Hardy announced the results of the annual election: the management slate had been reelected. Extent of its support: more than 60% of the 589,150 eligible shares. Oscar Cintas picked up his umbrella and walked out with Latin disdain...
...Gibson was honored at last week's exhibition by a retrospective room full of Gibson Girls. Now 71 and long retired, high-collared, big-chinned "Dana" Gibson paints all day in a 59th Street studio but not a soul is permitted to see his work. Held in great disdain by the Pyle school as "hothouse" draftsmen, Gibson's followers James Montgomery Flagg and Howard Chandler Christy had their years of glory but are now meeting stiff competition...
...these days of financial recession it is unusual to hear of anyone passing up government money, yet for give years for five years the University with true Republican disdain has held aloof from generous federal offers. Although the National Youth Administration has repeatedly expressed a willingness to contribute a hundred and thirty-five dollars to each of the two hundred and forty college students whom Harvard's officials declared to be both in good standing and in need of the funds in order to remain in college, a wary University Hall has refused to accept the grant...
...rush for a rough-and-ready practical education, many students have overlooked the vast store-house of Greek culture. To most men spending three whole courses learning a "dead language" seems the height of other-worldly scholasticism. But this disdain is born only of ignorance, ignorance of our tremendous inheritance from Greek culture, ignorance of the importance of its ideologies, ignorance of its influence on almost every branch of the arts. Some knowledge of Greece is almost essential in the formation of an educated...