Word: yorkerism
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...Sample stanza from a French translation of Jabberwocky (Le Jaseroque) by Frank L. Warrin, which appeared in the New Yorker...
...point of getting it when everything goes wrong, the tables are turned, his friend becomes his enemy, his girl laughs at him or some body punches him, physically, intellectually or spiritually, on the nose. Three of the stories collected here (most of them first published in The New Yorker) deal with face slappings, knockouts, punches in the jaw. Thirteen deal with their social equivalents: snubs, cuts, insults, brush-offs and cold shoulders. The others tell of rudenesses, deceits, infidelities or-more often-pathetic pretenses cruelly unmasked...
Gould likes to be interviewed, says "I make good copy." Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker treats Gould in "McSorley's Wonderful Saloon" where he spreads the fallacious (says Gould) story that Joe used to go into cafeterias and eat up a couples of bottles of ketchup, not because he liked it but because it was free...
...some reminiscences of this peripatetic career, later published in the New Yorker, won Wechsberg a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. The result is Looking for a Bluebird. Taken one at a time, at easy intervals, these nostalgic, Bemelmans-like sketches are delightful...
...last two or three years. He is forced to draw on huge sheets of paper, wearing special glasses (see cut). His last big writing job was a play, The Male Animal, done in 1940 with Elliot Nugent. From time to time, he shows up at the New Yorker offices, to stand in the corridors and shout "Nuts!" He still tells friends that he is "being followed softly by little men padding along in single file, about a foot and a half high, large-eyed, and whiskered...