Word: vanderbiltian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There, in Vanderbiltian splendor, the members of the R. F. of M. M. (mostly middle-aged women) forgathered to live on a vegetable diet and listen to Mr. Schafer's inspiring talk. One of The Messenger's tenets was that one could become immortal if one had no bad thoughts. To prove his belief, or to show it off, he adopted five-month-old Baby Jean Gauntt, installed her in the mansion with a nurse, and put her on a meatless diet surrounded by nothing but "good." Immortality for Baby Jean was in the bag, said...
Last week, Baby Jean's immortality had become just another intimation. The Messenger had other things on his metaphysical mind. The R. F. of M. M. dumped Baby Jean back into her waitress mother's un-Vanderbiltian quarters in a Manhattan rooming house. The Messenger, nattily attired in a grey, pin-striped suit with a platinum-and-diamond dove in the lapel, received reporters in his Manhattan office, lamented that he was the victim of a whispering campaign, and recited from Kipling's If!: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs...
...pursuant description made it clear that the new paper, the name of which was not vouchsafed, would be much like its Vanderbiltian predecessors. These, in their day, were modeled after the famed gum-chewers' sheetlets* of Manhattan. Compactly laid out, swathed in photographs, crowded with headlines, cluttered with "features", tabloid newspapers compress the national and international news the day with the local and incidental, expanding the latter into longer stories whenever it possesses sufficiently sensational details. The Vanderbilt papers, however, do not exploit crime am scandal as do their Manhattan prototypes. Their two most visible bents arc educational (stories...
| 1 |