Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their best work of the year. From Boston, where he was born in 1915, Jack Levine sent the most powerful canvas in the show, a Street Scene with three dreamlike, prodigious figures. As elegant as this was rough, The Various Spring by O. Louis Guglielmi, 31-year-old New Yorker, showed three identical blue-shirted workmen climbing maypoles to reach gift platters in each of which reposed a little dead Madrileno...
...face of its new $6,000,000 Parthenon-like building, the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh last week found painted in letters six feet high the New York University-Carnegie Tech football score: N.Y.U. 18. C.T. 14. The fan who did the job, a New Yorker but no N.Y.U. alumnus, was soon discovered, but Pittsburgh police could not extradite him for malicious mischief. Meantime, the institute's scientists in whom U.S. tycoons have invested $11,478,406 for industrial research, notably into paints and chemicals, threw all their resources into removing the black asphalt paint. In the end, they could...
...nature of Leggett's illness is unknown, but it is suspected that it was brought about by the strain of his fiery defense of the genuineness of the hand's six-foot bass drum. In completely denying the assertion in the current issue of the New Yorker, he declared the drum to be in A No. 1 condition. Evidently he was not speaking for himself at the same time...
...foot bass drum in the Harvard band is a phony," so runs the story in the current issue of the "New Yorker," and the writer proceeds to claim that "the boom-booms you hear come from a little bass drum alongside...
Last night this little scoop of the "New Yorker" received a damaging blow in the form of a complete denial from M. Bryce Leggett '38, band manager. "The drum is in A number 1 condition," he announced...