Word: yorkerism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...having driven the cab, flown the plane, worked for a paper) Stockly headed for New York determined to work either for The New Yorker magazine or TIME. He came to TIME first, was given a writing trial and hired. For the next seven years he wrote TIME'S Science section...
...Kent ever been a Communist? He took refuge in the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer. So did the other two authors, Richard Owen Boyer, onetime New Yorker writer and avowed Communist, and ex-N.Y.U. Professor Edwin B. Burgum...
Then came the turn of Bloch's co-counsel, New Yorker John Finerty, an old hand at celebrated cases (he argued for Sacco and Vanzetti, aided Tom Mooney). Finerty assailed the judgment against the Rosenbergs as "fraud" arranged by a "crooked" prosecution. Rebuked by the court, he retorted: "If you lift the stay [of the execution], then . . . God save the U.S. and this honorable court...
Nevada has new citizens from other states who do not seem to understand that Biltz knows what is best for them all. One of the noisiest is ex-New Yorker Hank Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun. When gambling ads disappeared from Greenspun's paper, he sued both Senator McCarran and the casino operators for conspiring to put him out of business, and got a fat $86,000 settlement out of court. Tom Mechling is making noises like a man who wants to run for governor of Nevada next year, and he has a core of political strength...
Donald J. Hurley, who drew up the bill for Governor Herter creating a state department of Industry and Commerce. Lombard C. Jones, graphic designer and cartoonist who served as managing editor for the New Yorker and American Mercury. Victor O. Jones, managing editor of the Boston Globe. Sargent Kennedy, Registrar of Harvard College...