Word: yorkerism
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...Sixth New Yorker Album...
...Friend of Gertrude Stein's (who described him as "the one young man who has an individual rhythm, his words made a sound to the eyes, most people's do not") he introduced Ernest Hemingway to her. Back in the U. S., he wrote for the New Yorker, until last year was its book reviewer. Meantime he had married Sculptress Elsa Kirpal, written a best-seller (The Outlaw Years), and begun to build with his own hands his own house near Brewster. N. Y. Tall, redhaired, slow moving, he likes to read dictionaries and trade journals, spends whole...
...program note in which an actor billed as Anton Stengel is described as having been a member of Max Reinhardt's companies in both Berlin and Vienna who has been working in Hollywood and is just making his bow on the Broadway stage. Sly Polemist Woollcott (The New Yorker), who relishes a good mystification, must have enjoyed inserting that bit into the humorous murder show he has written with famed Collaborator Kaufman (Of Thee I Sing...
...trains and a blue Buick convertible coupe. Since March 4 she has traveled incessantly up & down the nation, across it and back, visiting all manner of places and institutions. She has traversed its skies and its surface so thoroughly that, in epitomizing her ubiquity for the ages, the New Yorker pictured two coalminers at work in the earth's bowels (see cut, p. 12). One miner is saying: "For gosh sakes! Here comes Mrs. Roosevelt...
...LIFE AND HARD TIMES-James Thurber-Harper ($1.75). Very fugitive but allegedly autobiographical pieces, many reprinted from the New Yorker, by Madcap Thurber...