Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughter, an Indian Raja. On sale in the U. S. last week was the latest U. S. edition of London's Picture Post (dated a fortnight later than the British edition), containing an English journalist's solemn pictorial record of the life of an average New Yorker...
Picture Post's reporter was a pale, cadaverous Briton named Douglas MacDonald Hastings, who last spring spent two weeks in Manhattan with a cameraman. According to Journalist Hastings, an average New Yorker lives in suburban Larchmont, "goes up to work" on the subway. His grandfather was a German immigrant: "where he came from nobody knows...
Gertrude, the average New Yorker's wife, came from an old New England family. "In Gertrude's home in the South it was felt that she might have done better for herself." They were married as soon as they had the price of an automobile, for "in America you'd no more propose to a girl without a car than marry her without a ring...
...London last week Douglas Hastings admitted that in his two weeks' inspection he might have missed some aspects of a New Yorker's life. Said he: "New York is a hellish place to live, but it's the greatest sideshow on earth...
...Mencken to Bertrand Russell. . . . And John Sloan's "Gist of Art" is a provocative discussion of the theory and practice of art by an American painter of unquestionable ability. . . Bellamy Partridge's "Country Lawyer" reconstructs an interesting side of rural life in an older America. . . . "The 1940 New Yorker Album" assembles an excellent selection of the most unique cartoon humor in the world. . . . James Thurber's "The Last Flower" has been causing a mild furor of late, with its poetic parable of the future of our civilization. Unequivocally recommended. . . "U.S. Camera Annual: 1940" is edited by Steichen which means that...