Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brewers' Association, whose Manhattan plant is set to turn out 2,000,000 bbl. per year, announced: "We'll find the old saloon completely out of the picture. We'll find prototypes of the German beer garden springing up where your average New Yorker will bring his family. . . . We should and can have 5? beer. . . . I don't see the racketeer and the chiseler as problems to be considered. Their beer'll be only a drop in the bucket...
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...Yorker, which has faithfully narrated the lighter side of Mr. T. S. Eliot's adventures at Harvard this year, presented in last week's number one of its choice bits of Eliot-gossip. We at Harvard have little first-hand knowledge of this one because it all happened at Brown...
...some Republicans attended-Hoover Secretaries Hurley and Doak, "to pay respects," they explained. Avoiding the throng, President Roosevelt went up to the second-floor study where his whole Cabinet, confirmed a few hours before by the Senate, was assembled to be sworn in. Supreme Court Justice Cardozo, a New Yorker, administered oaths while the President sat at a desk and listened to the chorus of "I do's." Then he gave each Secretary a freshly-signed commission and a handshake. Miss Perkins, as head of the Labor Department, was ready to be addressed as "Madame Secretary." "Just a family...
Irvin S. Cobb paid for his memorable appendectomy many times over with the book he wrote about it: Speaking of Operations. Ring Lardner discovered last spring that the tedium of a sickbed could be profitably relieved by writing a radio colyum for the New Yorker, datelined "No Visitors, N. Y." Last week U. S. readers of the London Evening Standard perceived how an anonymous staffwriter aided by square-faced David Low, peerless New Zealand-born caricaturist, had made amusing copy out of Britain's influenza epidemic. The writer was personified as "the celebrated journalist Mr. Terry," a character assumed...