Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly a decade ago a New Yorker cartoon by Carl Rose showed a mother urging broccoli on an emancipated child whose response became immortal: "I say it's spinach-and I say to hell with it." To designers, spinach is not only a humble green but a trade word for any superfluous decoration. From these two sources came the fitting title of a book published this week by Manhattan's No. 1 dress designer, petite, smart, feline Elizabeth Hawes.* To Designer Hawes, "fashion" is superfluous decoration. In the process of telling how she shrugged it off she gives...
Last week Fashion Critic Hawes was still pouting at her publishers because they refused to illustrate her book with drawings she had had made by one of her favorite artists, the New Yorker's Helen Elna Hokinson. She vowed she was going to write another book, one that no publisher could consider too serious for Hokinson illustrations. Far less concerned with the incident than the fiery Hawes, shy Artist Hokinson, a specialist in the idiosyncrasies of clubwomen, was last week mainly interested in a delightful mass of raw material-a mob of inimitably shaped Garden Clubbers who descended...
...soon Mr. Hearst would begin to sell the rest of his hoard. The total Hearst collection of art and art objects has never been catalogued except in its owner's capacious memory, but its monstrous character has been a popular legend for years. Last autumn the New Yorker tried to investigate one of the five Hearst warehouses, a square block building in The Bronx, and reported rumors that besides a dim array of armor and some mummies it contained two palaces and a church, in pieces...
...Sands Point, L. I., in Manhattan, at St. Donat's and in the Hearst warehouses, his hodgepodge includes thousands of pieces of furniture, tapestries, armor, and hundreds of paintings including a few estimable Bouchers, Van Dycks, Rembrandts. Corrected by precise Agent Parish-Watson last week was the New Yorker's, tale of the palaces stored in The Bronx warehouse. What is actually there is a 12th-Century Spanish monastery, in 10,000 boxes...
...York Times, later on the New York Herald, Sun and World, he gushed one day like a Southern belle, the next flogged, like Simon Legree. As playwright, he collaborated with George S. Kaufman on the moderately successful Channel Road (1929), Dark Tower (1933). As contributor to The New Yorker, he wrote with equal vivacity on anagrams and croquet, of crime and parlor games. As author, he wrote books about dogs, the theatre, Irving Berlin, Mrs. Fiske (his stage idol), Dickens (his literary idol), achieved a best-seller with While Rome Burns. As editor, he compiled The Woollcott Reader and Woollcott...