Word: yorkerism
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...nature of Leggett's illness is unknown, but it is suspected that it was brought about by the strain of his fiery defense of the genuineness of the hand's six-foot bass drum. In completely denying the assertion in the current issue of the New Yorker, he declared the drum to be in A No. 1 condition. Evidently he was not speaking for himself at the same time...
...foot bass drum in the Harvard band is a phony," so runs the story in the current issue of the "New Yorker," and the writer proceeds to claim that "the boom-booms you hear come from a little bass drum alongside...
Last night this little scoop of the "New Yorker" received a damaging blow in the form of a complete denial from M. Bryce Leggett '38, band manager. "The drum is in A number 1 condition," he announced...
Besides making 487 fillings and 85 extractions, the Committee also looked out for the educational welfare of its victims: a curt paragraph says: "The 'New Yorker,' 'Time,' and 'Lampoon' are supplied by the Committee." It's the first time the "Lampoon," undergraduate humorous publication, has been placed in such a class...
...much more standardized humorist. Wolcott Gibbs is so self-depreciating that when he was managing editor of The New Yorker he kept his own copy out of the issue on every opportunity. For once an author's apologetic foreword ("How I ever came to write and collect the pieces in this book must remain an impressive mystery. Why the publisher is printing them is something he will have to explain to his God") is to be believed. Best pieces in his book, Bed of Neuroses, are the parodies. Best parodies: "Time . . . Fortune . . . Life . . . Luce," "Death in the Rumble Seat...