Word: yorkerism
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...removed to the basement, and we have been diligent in trying to discover why. Inquiry among Harvard sons now reveals that the barbershop was moved because club members objected to being looked at, by barbers, while in the nude. Just something about it they couldn't stand. --The New Yorker...
...painting. His wife, Betty Burroughs, recently had a show at the Weyhe Gallery. He was graduated from Yale in 1920, studied at the Art Student's League of New York, later under John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller. His smudgy drawings of U. S. types appear in The New Yorker, The New Masses...
...have long suspected, while reading Miss Fishback's verses in the New Yorker, that they were the product of Dorothy Parker in her less inspired moments. Her collected works, however, indicate that she is a separate and distinct personality; if this were the place for it, a discourse on the respective philosophies of the ladies concerned might be forthcoming,-but, this isn't the place...
...since Queen Victoria of Sweden told her she "had God in her throat."-The New Yorker...
...right? Remember the New Yorker was right in the Charlie Chaplin episode (TIME, March 9). Would you let even that swelegant magazine beat you twice...