Word: elegantiarum
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...Adam Winthrop] have a real life..." she said"... Mine isn't real at all. That's one of the reasons I cover paper with words. But you run great institutions. You buy beautiful things. You are Adam Winthrop, the arbiter elegantiarum of New York...
...veiled. The contractual sense of mission dominates the book as it does Auchin-closs's life. Related both by marriage and blood to the Winthrop family, trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, leader in the Century Club and the Downtown Association, Auchincloss prides himself on being an arbiter elegantiarum. So it is with authority that he writes about his Winthrop kinsmen, worthy judges of men and manners of their own times...
...newly hatched self-confidence man decides that Heu is quite good but that Non respondera is not up to snuff as a translation of "Don't anther." Generally, that sort of Nashian distortion is not handled really well, the arbiter elegantiarum decides comfortably, but translations that do not require puns or word twists are sometimes perfect. Exempli gratia...
...wrong. Mrs. Habert stuck to her guns, in the end phoned the New York Times. Next morning, the museum took a second look at the picture, mumbled something about how "the labels on the back were put on upside down," and conceded that Mrs. Habert was right. The arbiter elegantiarum of modern art had let a work by one of the most prestigious of modern painters stand on its head for six weeks. Pierre Matisse was gallantry itself: "Mrs. Habert," said he, "should be given a medal...
Great was the bewilderment last week when persons discovered, upon opening the March issue, that the capital letter had been reinstated. Fearfully they thumbed the pages for an explanation. Was Vanity Fair now in pursuit of normalcy? Was the arbiter elegantiarum permitting itself the shiny pants of ordinary life...
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