Word: yorkerism
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Artist Pach has a slanting Slavic forehead, a fiery eye, a mustache like an unravelled hawser. A native New Yorker, he studied painting under Leigh Hunt, William Merritt Chase and the late great Robert Henri. He has exhibited frequently with the Independents in Paris and New York. Not so well known is the fact that he is one of the Pachs of Pach Bros., commercial photographers, a business now carried on by Brother Alfred. Persuasive Elie Faure, French critic, is Walter Pach's best friend. In 1930 he finished a translation of Faure's vast and authoritative History...
...eyed Alexander Woollcott entertained his public in The New Yorker last week with a description of a new painting in his bedroom, an autumn view of Sannois by Maurice Utrillo in his familiar, cool grey & white manner. News was the fact that Mr. Woollcott did not own the picture, but had rented it from Inventor John Van Nostrand Dorr-rent ($100 for four months) to go to the Greenwich House Music School. He added...
...trumpet. He is looking very well in his spectral way and is enjoying the health which only a vigorous summer close to nature can produce. Economic disaster directed the Vagabond's steps toward the farm where he patterned his life upon the teachings of Roussean and the Rural New Yorker...
...sticks. Fact is, every one of them I got is a treasure. Thank the Lord golf sticks can't be turned out like ice boxes. . . ." The Virginia gentry who will soon have a chance to see the work of the Stradivari of golf must thank a New Yorker for them. The golf museum was made possible through the munificence of an indefatigable museum founder, tall Archer Milton Huntington, son of Railroad Builder Collis Potter Huntington. Archer Huntington insists that his real hobby is Hispanic studies, not founding museums. He has written several travel books on Spain, translated the epic...
...Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee as Mayor of New York did more to damage the reputation of James John ("Jimmy") Walker, his predecessor, than a year's investigating by Samuel Seabury. Mayor McKee, young, handsome, sober, tackled his new job with a vigor and thoroughness that made many a New Yorker who had forgotten what good government was like gasp with happy astonishment. A new broom, he swept clean and by last week had accumulated a sizeable pile of Tammany trash...