Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and … - Frank Crowninshield

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He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. Of course, there are lots of other words he doesn't know either.

Frank Crowninshield

Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly.

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. . . not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

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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.

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

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

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