Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with more sense, has fallen to the lure of publicity and has entered into negotiations with Mr. Vallee, designed to make the University of Toronto known from coast... There is a limit and it comes, we think, when college after college succumbs to the crooning voice of the New Yorker and goes after cheap radio and song sheet publicity, inimical to the interests of culture and education which a university, we have always erroneously thought, is supposed to embrace and cultivate. --McGill Daily...
...House. After the French affair, George Bernard Shaw had nominated Mr. Hearst (in the Hearstpapers) for President of the U. S. But it was probably not that at which he was chuckling while he had his picture taken on the White House steps (see cut). That hard-hitting New Yorker, Alfred Emanuel Smith, had years ago (1922) knocked out of him his last swelling of political ambition. Rather was Publisher Hearst filled with a sense of enormous wellbeing, the feeling of a great figure content in his heyday. While people were tumbling over each other in Los Angeles...
...Murdock Pemberton, Kansas-born art critic of The New Yorker, woman's club lecturer, is even more definite, lists the four greatest living painters thus: Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Derain. All except Matisse, who as a judge cannot show, are exhibiting in Pittsburgh. *Paul Gauguin, morose Post-Impressionist painter of the 1890's, grew disgusted with modern civilization, sold all his European paintings for 9,860 francs ($1,972) deserted his wife and children and went to spend the rest of his life in Tahiti, the "Terrestrial Paradise.'' There, still subject to acute melancholia, he went completely...
...York and last year designed for the Newark Art Theatre. He has taught Stage Design in the New York School of Fine and Applied Art and in Europe. He was the consultant illuminating engineer for the new ballroom of the Steamship Leviathan, the ballroom of the Hotel New Yorker and the ballroom of the Hotel St. George...
...list of cities where, since the success of The New Yorker, local weekly smartchart, have been started, last fortnight was added New Orleans.† Like most of its contemporaries, The New Orleanian candidly follows The New Yorker pattern. Its first issue showed care of preparation, uncommon taste in typographical layout. Most famed contributor: Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford, author of Ol' Man Adam & His Chillun (source of Marc Connelley's Pulitzer prize play, The Green Pastures). Instead of "The Talk of the Town" (New Yorker), the New Orleanian's first pages were headed "Uptown-Downtown-Back of Town...