Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience cheered itself into a hoarse croak, critics wrote rhapsodic reams and the Wagner concert Arturo Toscanini gave for his season's farewell in Manhattan last week left everyone groping for non-existent superlatives. Many a conservative New Yorker pronounced it the greatest concert within memory, credited its success not only to the little Italian conductor but also to Soprano Gertrude Kappel who majestically outdid herself as Brünnhilde in the Immolation scene from Götterdümmerung...
...protested to the Periodical Chief (and Buyer) telling her I could understand the Library's discontinuing its New Yorker & Vanity Fair subscriptions but as for its TIME discontinuation, goodness, no, never! Her excuse was that the Library had so many research periodicals to subscribe to that it just couldn't see how it could afford to subscribe to TIME...
...notorious slum area in which eight lives were lost, 700 tattered moppets marched down to the City Hall bearing banners: "We Don't Want'to Burn to Death." Under New York law a tenement is any building housing three families or more. But to a New Yorker tenements mean those built under the lax laws existing prior to 1901. All but four of the 48 deaths in recent tenement fires occurred in "old law" buildings of which New York City has 67,000, most of them dating back to the Civil War. One-half of them are equipped...
...getting a pension in her old age. When Lotte Lehmann's singing days are done she will get a pension from the proud Vienna Opera where she is a Member of Honor. By the time she sailed for Europe this week many a hard-to-please New Yorker was convinced that hers is the most beautiful soprano voice...
WHILE ROME BURNS-Alexander Woollcott-Viking ($2.75). Mostly reprinted pieces from Quipnunc Woollcott's page in The New Yorker...