Word: stylist
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...belief from one of the ablest of U. S. priests, Monsignor Fulton John Sheen (who also instructed Convert Mann). Columnist Broun will be received into the Church late this month. Thereafter he may well become the U. S. equivalent of a famed British convert-the late Gilbert Keith Chesterton, stylist, wit, rough-&-tumble fighter for the Faith...
...matter of fact I think my success as a writer is due almost entirely to my lack of education. You see, some people have called me a literary stylist, but that's not al all true. My education was so meagre that when I started to write my column, I didn't have the faintest idea of how to spell the words I ran up against. Consequently, I just spell them the way they sound--herz d'ecuvres are just plain "aw-devres...
...making visual records. This is a long-term point of view, involving the fact that photographs like Eugene Atget's of Paris become poignant to most people only gradually, as years pass and streets vanish. Berenice Abbott from Springfield, Ohio, learned photography in Paris in the darkroom of Stylist Man Ray. Returning to Manhattan in 1929, she was overwhelmed with a desire to document "the whole crazy city...
Never disparaged was Gouverneur Morris' earlier record. He was spokesman at 26 for Washington at the Continental Congress; brilliant assistant to the "financier of the Revolution," Robert Morris (no kin); leading framer and "stylist" of the Constitution; first U. S. minister to France. But his name has come down as the "notorious aristocrat" who intrigued with Louis XVI against the French Revolution; who deliberately let his archenemy, Tom Paine, rot in Luxembourg Prison; who speculated in U. S. lands, wheat, tobacco, the public debt...
Engaged. Janet Gaynor, 32-year-old cinemactress (A Star is Born, Three Loves Has Nancy); to Gilbert Adrian, 35, Hollywood's No. 1 fashion stylist; in Hollywood...