Word: yorkerism
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...River the Harvard student, Franklin D. Roosevelt, disciplined his mind for the grave responsibilities of today. There Lowell penned his poems against slavery; there Hawthorne wrote his "Scarlet Letter"; there Washington schemed to outwit the enemy; there Bell invented the telephone; there Rudy Vallee got his start. The New Yorker...
...government of himself or the management of his estate." A radio actor named Drexel Biddle Steele said he was "giving a small supper party-only about 30 persons," for Claire Delmar, Swiss actress, in Los Angeles' swank Embassy Club, when belligerent Peter Arno, sexy cartoonist of the New Yorker, entered the club with Film Actress Sally O'Neil. Cartoonist Arno, who two years ago was chased across the landscape of Reno, Nev. by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. with an unloaded pistol, was introduced to Miss Delmar, became angry when Actor Steele "explained at that moment that there was just...
...smoky blacksmith shop of Hugh McMahan at Newport, Tenn. last week, a young New Yorker named Don Cahill was discussing the NRA. Blacksmith McMahan was an NRA man. Cahill was not. Resenting the city man's talk, the patriotic blacksmith let his temper get the better of him. He picked up one of his tools and flung it at Cahill. Cahill flung back. The blacksmith flung another, Cahill returned it, and Blacksmith McMahan drew his gun shot Cahill dead...
...WALL-L. A. G. Strong-Knopf ($2.50). Story of an Irish childhood, English schooling, the War, by the author of The Garden. JUNIPERO SERRA - Agnes Repplier- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Essayist Repplier writes the life of one of California's friar-pioneers. THE SIXTH NEW YORKER ALBUM- Harper ($2.50). Gleanings for the curious from the Manhattan smartchart. RIDDLES OF THE GOBI DESERT-Sven Hedin-Button ($5). More of the same oy the author of Across the Gobi Desert. THE ROOSEVELT REVOLUTION, First Phase - Ernest K. Lindley - Viking ($2.50). A Washington correspondent analyzes the New Deal. THE GREAT OFFENSIVE-Maurice...
...Manhattan meeting of leaders of the United German Societies early last week, the Ridder Brothers, proprietors of the New York Staats-Zeitung and the New Yorker Herold, influential U. S. German-language dailies, rose to charge Nazi Spanknoebel with attempting to dictate to their papers, charged that German Day was about to become a Hitler Day celebration. The audience jeered. A Dr. Griebl attempted to hit Bernard Ridder. Somebody twice pulled the chair out from under the Jewish treasurer, and a delegation of the United Societies Party wound up in City Hall to hear a riot act read to them...