Word: yorkerism
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...notorious slum area in which eight lives were lost, 700 tattered moppets marched down to the City Hall bearing banners: "We Don't Want'to Burn to Death." Under New York law a tenement is any building housing three families or more. But to a New Yorker tenements mean those built under the lax laws existing prior to 1901. All but four of the 48 deaths in recent tenement fires occurred in "old law" buildings of which New York City has 67,000, most of them dating back to the Civil War. One-half of them are equipped...
...getting a pension in her old age. When Lotte Lehmann's singing days are done she will get a pension from the proud Vienna Opera where she is a Member of Honor. By the time she sailed for Europe this week many a hard-to-please New Yorker was convinced that hers is the most beautiful soprano voice...
WHILE ROME BURNS-Alexander Woollcott-Viking ($2.75). Mostly reprinted pieces from Quipnunc Woollcott's page in The New Yorker...
Grapevine information from the remoter parishes of Louisiana indicates that Senator Long's constituents are not disposed to take undue alarm at the Harvard Liberal Club's call to arms. Some of those constituents were indeed disturbed not long ago by word that one lone New Yorker had whanged the Senator in the eye and got away with it, but when he explained that he was ganged by four or five ruffians his loyal supporters said that was all right, a thing, which might happen to anybody. There is no intimation that the Harvard Liberal Club intends...
...school there, got a job with the New York American when he was 18. Unlike most newsmen, he worked for the same paper for 16 years. Unlike most Hearstmen, he dared to write up his famed boss (after he had left the American) in a series for The New Yorker, later expanded and published as W. R. Hearst, An American Phenomenon. Winkler was a star reporter before he was 21. A free-lance for the last ten years, he has withdrawn to artist-haunted Westport, Conn., where he keeps bachelor house, dabbles in gardening, plays good enough tennis to trounce...