Word: yorkerism
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Then for love of diversity or lack of goldfish, the fads began to change. A University of Illinois freshman, John Poppelreiter, swallowed five white mice. An Gregon State student preferred 139 angleworms, while at Lafayette College, an eager undergraduate ate an issue of "New Yorker," advertisements...
...orchestra has played in Boston at the Latin Quarter, the Meadows, the Statler Hotel, and the Copley Plaza. His New York engagements have included the Hotel New Yorker and the Biltmore...
Shadow in the Sky (M-G-M), based on a New Yorker short story by Edward Newhouse, finds ex-Marine Ralph Meeker committed to a veterans' hospital because of his morbid tendency to hide under tables whenever it rains. When he is finally pronounced well enough to move in with his sister and brother-in-law (Nancy Davis and James Whitmore), they at first hesitate to bring him into close contact with their two children. But eventually they give in to the urgings of conscience embodied in Jean Hagen, a whimsical young woman who has met Meeker at hospital...
...Yorker...
Chrysler New Yorker...