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Word: yorkerish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violent death. "The Blue Bird" by H. P. Coolidge places a troupe of Russian ballet dancers in an American hotel and sketches with humor and feeling the aversion of a lesser Nijinsky tragedy. The third fictional item, "I said my Penance" by Peul Clark, is a light, almost New-Yorkerish vignette of a Catholic college student setting his rather elastic conscience aright for "Easter duty...

Author: By Dana B. Durand, INSTRUCTOR IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE | Title: Awareness of Contrast Livens Poems, Fiction, Reviews in April Advocate | 4/13/1937 | See Source »

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