Word: woolman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after prophesying the most drastic style changes in a decade, the fashion magazines swept on to the crucial task of their year: rushing the news, sketches and pictures from the Paris and New York openings into print for their big fall numbers. Queenly Edna Woolman Chase, 70-year-old editor-in-chief of Vogue, bustled home from a quick inspection of her revived British and French editions. Pert Carmel Snow, 56, editor of Harper's Bazaar, was doing front-line duty in Paris. Both were ecstatic about derrieres, guepieres (little waist corsets), and a French designer...
...rocklike unity with the earnest intelligence, the upright and enduring heart, which even Dreiser's detractors give him credit for. They may also find that Dreiser was capable of a remarkable purity of communication whenever he was deeply moved. For in the words of the American Quaker, John Woolman, which he quotes, Dreiser at his best lived and wrote in faithfulness to "a principle placed. In the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names; it is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion...
...Novelist Chase is a descendant of John Woolman, who, thanks to his Journal, is probably the best known U.S. Quaker...
Editor of Vogue itself is Edna Woolman Chase (mother of Actress-Author Ilka), an amber-eyed, blue-haired, 66-year-old. An able, experienced judge of style trends, Mrs. Chase started in the circulation department 38 years ago, in no time was writing picture captions. Sample: "Mauve is the prevailing nuance of the hour . . . even to the ear posies of one's carriage horses." In 1914 she became Vogue's editor. She gets to work around 10 a.m., Mondays through Fridays, leaves about 6. An admirer of things transatlantic, she is largely responsible for Vogue's British...
Hindside Foremost. Later young Ilka was transferred to a secular school where her popularity depended on whether or not her mother, Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue, was "crusading against fashions for the young." As soon as she could, she bought herself a gold lace negligee with pink marabou feathers "of which Mother remarked, with the candor which has always distinguished her, that it was a tart's idea of heaven." Then Mother gave her a choice of more school or a trip to Europe...