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...stomach your grub, and smile...
These people, the agile Pulcinellas of Manhattan's Grub Street,* were outlining the policy of a magazine they had decided to publish? The New Yorker. "The purpose," they said, "of The New Yorker will be to reflect New York life through its treatment of the lives and personalities of the day. It will not be what is called radical or highbrow. It will be what is called sophisticated . . . will publish facts which it will have to go behind the scenes to get . . . hopes to reflect metropolitan life." Then said someone: "It will not be edited for the old lady...
Despite Mr. Chalufour's remarks on the subject of "grub-grumbling", there is much to be said for Mr. Gowney's complaint. Two years ago, when we were inmates--if I may use the word--of the Freshman Halls, the food was generally prepared in a very poor fashion. Save for a few standard dishes the articles on the so-called menus were uniformly badly cooked. I do not mean to say that they were unwholesome though memory of certain cream puffs still lurks in my mind and in those of others as well. The food was probably both wholesome...
...order of Grub Street, Thalia meets her dressmaker every morning, Melpomene goes nowhere without her modiste, and Terpsichore: picks a wardrobe that, if brief, is always brilliant; for Grub Street has: found that pot boiling has a better : savor to the public if it is done in fancy dress...
...honest homespun play still holds the boards, and always will, but many a gold brick passes on its tinsel. Affairs might reach a worse state than this, for this at least is fire and food for Grub street, God bless its honest soul...