Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yorker fulminated tiredly, but the first person to do anything about the plates was a 42-year-old unemployed boiler mechanic of White Plains, one Martin McBohin, a Wartime Marine sergeant. Last week Martin McBohin stuck adhesive tape over the offensive lettering and was promptly arrested for defacing a license plate. Sure that he was standing on his rights, Objector McBohin, up for trial this week, roundly declared: "I'm prepared to appeal the case to the highest court." Indignantly he added: "Next thing you know the State will compel us to advertise someone's corn flakes." More...
...Englanders are often accused of aggressive provincialism, and few of them would go much out of their way to deny the charge. Usually they simply assume that it is a New Yorker who is trying to turn the conversation toward his own superior cosmopolitanism, and give the matter no further thought...
...with the progressive directors of the Coop. As leaders of a Cooperative enterprise, they rightly shoulder the foibles and failings of the community as their own, and have launched a subtle attack on all this loose talk about provincialism. We know one New Yorker whom they have badly baffled...
Shoe-Builder Burger received over a column program credit in the Oct. 23 issue of the New Yorker...
...started work in the gaudy Evelyn Walsh McLean mansion, where the Project's temporary offices were established. Although administrative work was handled by professionals like Alsberg's assistant, Reed Harris, or his chief editor, Biographer Edward Barrows (Great Commodore), or Architect Roderick Seidenberg, who designed The New Yorker Hotel, the detail work was done by a mazy mass of unemployed newspapermen, poets, graduates of schools of journalism who had never had jobs, authors of unpublished novels, high-school teachers, people who had always wanted to write, a sprinkling of first-rate professional writers who were down on their...