Word: yorkerism
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...wreathed Grimsby on the North Sea, where British fishermen now don the greasy dungarees of the Royal Navy to go fishing for mine and submarine, Writer A. J. Liebling of The New Yorker found British character wondrously salted away in the diary of a patrol-boat captain. The captain was dead: he had "copped it in a fight with some motor torpedo boats. A one-pound shell took half of his head off." But he had left his immortally mortal diary behind...
...Humorous Side"--of this war--is the title of another display of current cartoon originals which have appeared in The New Yorker done by such artists as Garrett and Robert Day. Other problems are the "Showing of a Single Masterpiece," and "A Theme in Reproductions--The Apocalypse...
...finishing a series of articles for The New Yorker about her actress sister June Havoc and her mother, with whom she started trouping when she was six. Even that job did not disillusion her with literature ("People told me that anyone who wrote for The New Yorker got a neurotic stomach. I thought it was a gag. I felt fine when I started. Now, sure enough, my stomach has gone to hell...
Alexander Woollcott, "Harpo" Marx, Grantland Rice, F. P. A., Mark Watson (Sunday editor of the Baltimore Sun), Harold Ross (New Yorker editor), Stephen T. Early (Presidential press secretary) would make quite a staff for a weekly paper. Once they did. They and other rank-&-filers (officers were outlawed) made journalistic history in World War I by publishing the A.E.F.'s Stars & Stripes, which ran its circulation to over 500,000, won praise in Pershing's memoirs as the biggest morale builder of the A.E.F...
...fanciful stroke of the Blue was noted by The New Yorker: a Chinese class for Blue announcers, who have done so well at beginning the day with Buenas dias! that they are now learning how to say "Good morning" in Mandarin (tsao shun...