Word: mondell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large buyer of advertising and magazine art. The market for such work, over which he presides, has been a great factor in developing many of the foremost fashion artists in the country. He has introduced to the American public such well known French illustrators as Lepape, Martin, Boutet de Mondel the younger, Georges Barbier, and Brissaud. In photography the Baron de Meyer, Alfred Cheney Johnston, Nikolas Muray, and Dr. Arnold Genthe have found in the Nast Publications a commercial stimulus for their progress, and in that stimulus Mr. Campbell has been the chief motive power...
...revived. Formerly when two men fought and one was more or less damaged the other was fined a few dollars--if one died the other might have been hanged. But now killing a man will be no more dangerous than giving him a bloody nose,--will it be murder? Mondel, who spent his life working out laws of heredity, should turn in his grave, for all his labor must be done over again to fit a transmuted race. All told, our already complicated existence will become a hopeless nightmare of bewilderment, and we must resign ourselves to it. Surely...
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