Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boned, 60-year-old Danish-American who likes to make motorcars and more motorcars. If anything interferes with this procedure he gets uneasy, at times even uses words he learned in 1900 when, as a raw immigrant, he was a shipyard's reamer in a New York torpedo-boat plant...
...Tammany Boss Frank V. Kelly of Brooklyn succeeded in getting Franklin Roosevelt to appoint his friend Harold M. Kennedy U. S. Attorney for New York City's Eastern district, instead of David Schenker, candidate of Mayor LaGuardia and Thomas ("Uncorkable") Corcoran. Interpretation: after his talk last fortnight with Mr. Farley, Mr. Roosevelt decided to appease local bosses; in this instance, abandoned the Corcoran plan to encircle Republican County Attorney Tom Dewey with brilliant New Deal prosecutors and prosecutions. Exaggeration (on the radio by Son Elliott Roosevelt): "Brooklyn is the key to the 1940 election...
...Bronx, sprawling northern borough of New York City, live a great many Jewish people of all shapes and sizes. Two who were about the same shape and size lived in the same apartment building at No. 250 East 178th Street. If you did not know them well, you might easily have confused Philip Orlovsky, onetime clothing workers union official (now in the textile-shrinking business), and Irving (Isadore) Penn, 42, royalties manager for G. Schirmer, Inc., music publishers. A jolly homebody with no interest outside of his family (wife & two children), music publishing...
...Civil War, most news from Spain has been written from afar, contributed by correspondents who 1) could not get in, 2) could not find out much if they did, 3) did not like what they found out. Last week Carey Longmire, open-eyed correspondent of the Paris New York Herald, turned in a report of a real trip through Spain. Having no truck with the official and political life, Correspondent Longmire wandered through the towns noting the price of eggs, the looks of posters, the crowds at bullfights, jokes, songs and the length of women's bathing suits, came...
...August that sleepy little spa in upstate New York wakes up to become to U. S. racehorse people what Ascot is to the English, Longchamp to the French, Melbourne to the Australians. Saratoga can be as hot as the Sahara in August. Its hotels are great grotesque relics of the Mauve Decade with creaking elevators and hard beds. Its natives are openly out to make hay while the sun shines...