Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home is home. But when I'm in England, I want to get back to America, and when I'm back here, I'm dying to get back to England. I don't like to stay in one place very long, anyhow. You might say I am almost cosmopolitan...
Among the so-called "light-fiction" monthlies, the "Cosmopolitan" is supreme, with the "Red Book" following close behind. The "American" and its how-I-became-a-successful-clothespinking stories trails a poor third, "College Humor" sells more copies than any other monthly periodical. With its collegiate cullings from all the college humorous magazines of the country except the Harvard "Lampoon", it stands in a field more or less...
Some people will write almost anything for money; William Randolph Hearst will pay them for it and publish it. In the March Cosmopolitan, Mrs. Elizabeth Jaffray, onetime White House housekeeper (TIME, Nov. 15), tells in one breath that President Harding used to drink whiskey with his friends in the White House after the 18th Amendment was passed; in the next breath that she put her arms around Mrs. Harding after the President's death, while the widow murmured: "Oh, Mrs. Jaffray...
Said a Portraitist Leonebel Jacobs: "Small . . . poised ... sophisticated . . . cosmopolitan . . . elusive." Men were speechless at first, then snared. She saw Koo. Her father saw his father. She married him. He came to Washington as Minister. Her money paid 26 servants, paid for gowns, motors, took the Koos on to the Court of St. James's, bought a private palace in London, furnished a smart apartment few knew about, left Mrs. Koo free to get whatever else she wanted in her own illogical compelling fashion...
Today, in Peking at the semibarbaric court of the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, Mrs. Wellington Koo is par excellence the cosmopolitan aristocrat of feminine China...