Word: yorkerism
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...Voice of TIME, both on the air and in the cinema, is that of Cornelius Westbrook Van Voorhis, 35, tall (6 ft. 1 in.), brown-haired New Yorker who has also broadcast as Hugh Conrad. In his six years with radio he has worked for some 50 programs using at least five names (some chosen by the sponsors). Bored by the U. S. Naval Academy, he spent his $150,000 patrimony on a leisurely trip around the world. Unsuccessful on the stage, he got a job at $18 a week introducing Jimmy Durante and Cab Galloway at the now defunct...
Prime New Deal propaganda was a recent New Yorker cartoon which pictured a plump, baldish economic royalist murmuring to a reluctant, expensive young woman: "And if Roosevelt is not reelected, perhaps even a villa in Newport, my dearest sweet...
Last week young New Yorkers enrolled in a Landon First Voters League indicated that they had missed either the New Yorker cartoon or its point when they organized a "Victim of Future Taxes" unit, sent out a "Barrel Show" to tour the city and Eastern college campuses. Doing their bit in the current GOP campaign to persuade the nation that Franklin Roosevelt is somehow to blame for local, municipal, county and State as well as Federal taxes, a young man and three professional women models appear in garments from which parts of sleeves, skirts, crowns and toes have been scissored...
...that she doesn't expect to. Why else have Boston connections? and this is no chicken from Dayton, Ohio. She's a New Yorker...
...wise man, who a dolt. And we're fairly certain that the court wouldn't be many weeks old before it had a sponsor who would buy the broadcasting privilege, and we would have universal truth coming to us through the courtesy of Universal Baking Powder. The New Yorker...