Word: yorker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hereafter we will know to what publication to turn for our sporting news. No more wading through column after column of local trash! --New Yorker...
...Americans of the nineties. But bit by bit "Life" had to die because it could not change its temper when chafing-dishes were banished from the sideboards of America for juniper drops and bitters. All that was still vital in "Life" was appropriated five years ago by the "New Yorker," and seasoned with the urbanities of a new Manhattan cocktail...
...attempt will be made to report every cinema, every play and nightclub that opens in Manhattan, every book that is published. Instead, a single "man-about-town" feature is contemplated wherein ostensibly one writer reports (as in The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town") the most entertaining things lately seen, heard, read, done...
Three drawings in the magazine The New Yorker, showing a baby in a pen, a clerk in a cashier's cage, and a prisoner behind the bars were responsible for the introduction of cartoons into a psychology course of Dr. F. L. Wells, instructor of Experimental Psychopathology, it was learned yesterday in an interview at the Psychopathic Hospital...
Other phases in the study of psychology which Dr. Wells has found in abundance among the pages of The New Yorker, and a similar German magazine called Simplicissimus, are nauseaism, symbolism, marriage, and social adjustments, as well as perversions, thought patterns, and sublimation...