Word: yorkerism
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Crooned by throaty-voiced Marion Mann, Bob Crosby's vocalist at Manhattan's Hotel New Yorker, these words last week first puzzled, then annoyed listeners, who failed to catch the meaning of the French. When they asked for more light, Bandleader Crosby himself was stumped...
...Last fall, with World War II at hand, a prepayment bonus not quite in sight, eight Princetonians formed another society concerned with war: the In & Out Club. They dedicated their new club to pleasurable, social pursuits, pending a U. S. act of war. Chief In: begoggled New Yorker Albert Joseph Parreno...
...supper is announced; a half hour of intimacy, a chance to laugh over the last issue of "The New Yorker" or Monday night's opening. But she knows nothing of cither. Oh well, she was at the Somerset last week. Why not talk about the music--but it's always Ruby Newman. Still, her hair is soft and hangs enticingly around her neck. Talk about telephone numbers about hers in particular. She is nervous about giving...
...tongue between the teeth), by an excessively hissing s, by heavy ng sounds (e.g., "making gah" for "making a"); and by closing and diphthongizing certain vowels, so that "ask" sounds like "ay-usk" (or "ay-ust"), and "cough" sounds like "co-uff." The uneducated New Yorker seems to say "shoik" for "shirk" and "cherce" for "choice." Actually he uses the same sound, intermediate between ir and oi, for both words...
When Washington Irving, the successful, 42-year-old American author, first visited Madrid in 1826, Spain's empire and glory and even Goya were gone.* All that was left was picturesqueness and a sort of sunset charm, but that was enough to entrance the whimsical New Yorker. Probably the most uncritical foreign observer who ever appeared on the Peninsula, he took to the high life of Spain's capital as happily as his Rip van Winkle had taken to the little Dutchmen's supernatural liquor. One of his dashing hostesses was the Duchess of Benavente, who hated...