Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majority of the young gentlemen present acknowledged that they had been to a jamboree in town the night before and had danced a bit. They didn't get their lunch until the cook primped up and came out and waited on them herself. --The New Yorker...
Artist Pach has a slanting Slavic forehead, a fiery eye, a mustache like an unravelled hawser. A native New Yorker, he studied painting under Leigh Hunt, William Merritt Chase and the late great Robert Henri. He has exhibited frequently with the Independents in Paris and New York. Not so well known is the fact that he is one of the Pachs of Pach Bros., commercial photographers, a business now carried on by Brother Alfred. Persuasive Elie Faure, French critic, is Walter Pach's best friend. In 1930 he finished a translation of Faure's vast and authoritative History...
...eyed Alexander Woollcott entertained his public in The New Yorker last week with a description of a new painting in his bedroom, an autumn view of Sannois by Maurice Utrillo in his familiar, cool grey & white manner. News was the fact that Mr. Woollcott did not own the picture, but had rented it from Inventor John Van Nostrand Dorr-rent ($100 for four months) to go to the Greenwich House Music School. He added...
...story alone will Hands as Bands be read by many a downtown New Yorker. For Author Revere is that formidable thing, a businessman turned author in middle life. He is the cotton expert for Munds, Winslow & Potter. His market letters have for years been famed as models of rhetoric as well as sagacity. Friends and critics have told him for years he should have been a writing man. Now he is confident he has justified their and his belief that he could do a big novel in a big way. His story barges indomitably on & on through 330 pages with...
...trumpet. He is looking very well in his spectral way and is enjoying the health which only a vigorous summer close to nature can produce. Economic disaster directed the Vagabond's steps toward the farm where he patterned his life upon the teachings of Roussean and the Rural New Yorker...