Word: yorkerish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FORTUNE," and a syndicate called Scoop, which sells France-Soir's features to the hinterland. His wife, Héléne Gordon Lazareff, who trained on the New York Times and Harper's Bazaar, now edits Elle, a Parisian women's weekly magazine with New Yorkerish touches...
...years ago, prospering Watercolorist Dehn had a yen to go back to his crayons and litho stone. Last week the 60 lithographs he had finished in his spare moments were on exhibit at a Manhattan gallery. A good many of them were in his old vein: New Yorkerish jibes at solemn nuns, nightclubbers & dilettantes. But most gallerygoers preferred his Minnesota farmyards and Colorado mountain landscapes. In them, Dehn proved once again that he knows how to give black the coolness and weight of real shadows, and how to make white blaze and sparkle the way light does...
...Rodes Arnold's "Blast of the March Wind" is a simple and deeply felt picture of failure and bereavement, inconclusive but richly detailed. Only the Harry Brown story, a not quite "New Yorkerish" piece about a blonde and her husband in a tourist cabin, is unsatisfactory. All the stories, then, have it in common to be on a high technical level, to be not particularly "contemporary" in interest, and to seem not to deal with material that comes very close to the writer as person...