Word: yorkerism
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...story about the diva who was ill and the understudy who stepped in at the last minute and scored a hit. It happened at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House: the diva was bosomy Yugoslav Soprano Zinka Milanov; the understudy, a wispy, 22-year-old New Yorker named Regina Resnik...
...curious new chemical last week achieved something of a vogue as a social toy in Manhattan. Gadget-loving hosts introduced it at family gatherings; the Manhattan press ran feature stories; the New Yorker took notice. This entertaining material is a kind of putty which can be pulled and kneaded like taffy but has a surprising, unputty-like property-when rolled into a ball and dropped on a hard surface, it bounces...
...London, footloose Emily's flight from the domestic atmosphere of Winnetka took her in 1935 to newspaper work in Shanghai and an unconventional apartment in the city's red-light district. She stayed in the Orient long enough to contribute numerous Chinese vignettes to the New Yorker, write a book about China's most famous women (The Soong Sisters), have an illegitimate child by the chief of the British Military Intelligence in Hong Kong. Last year the Japs sent her home on the Gripsholm...
Based on Sally Benson's New Yorker stories, Meet Me in St. Louis has a good deal more substance and character than most musicals. It is the story of the well-heeled Smith family during the summer and fall and winter of 1903 and, more particularly, of the four Smith Sisters...
Shut Up. Bernard Haggin, an angular musical zealot who looks a decade younger than his 44 years, has been a New Yorker from his lower East Side boyhood, through the College of the City of New York, to his present upper West Side hideaway. There he keeps a super-phonograph, whose sensitive entrails are always getting out of whack, and a Mason & Hamlin, which he has been known to play for bosom friends. On paper he has no facility whatever, but by main strength has made himself a writer of exceptional pith and clarity (Music On Records, A Book...