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Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

~Frank Crowninshield

Topics: Courage Everywhere Full Genius Men Met Originality Women Young Young Men Young Women

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I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic interest. Everything has been chosen entirely because of its aesthetic significance; its form, feeling, structure, and plastic values.

~Frank Crowninshield

Topics: About Aesthetic Africa Anything Because Been Chosen Collected Curious Entirely Everything Feeling Figure Form Historic Interest Never Object Plastic Significance Structure Utility Values

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Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.

~Frank Crowninshield

Topics: American American Life Change Cheerfulness Country Dancing Delights Devotion Forms Great Happiness Increased Instance Laughter Let Us Life Pleasure Recently Respect Sport Us Which

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For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit... We mean to appeal to their intellects... and we hereby announce ourselves as determined and bigoted feminists.

~Frank Crowninshield

Topics: Announce Appeal Determined Feminists Intend Mean Missionary Noble Ourselves Something Spirit Women

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What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

~Frank Crowninshield

Topics: America France Marie Mary

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In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.'

~Frank Crowninshield

Topics: Always Another Back Boy Calls Day Door Down Father Feet Girl Her His Hollering Look Maid Meet Mother Room Says See She Shuffle Stern Still Today Up Would You

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My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.

~Frank Crowninshield

Topics: Able Around Been Given Great Had House Lady Loneliness Me Particularly Provider Reached Seduce Sense Sixty Thinking Time Until Would Youth

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My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.

~Frank Crowninshield

Topics: Books Bring Correct Country Cuisine Dances Derives Dresses Fact Gardens Houses Immense Interest Like Little Mind Money Number Painting Position Pretty Rare Smart Snob Society Things Times Train Which Women Word

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We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.

~Frank Crowninshield

Topics: About American Course Discovery Female First French Interested Know Mixed Name Reading Really Sauce Who Yearn

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 24th, 1872

Died: December 28th, 1947

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