Word: yorkerism
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Well! Things have come to a pretty pass. TIME (Feb. 9) tells us Charlie Chaplin has used the same mustache for the last 15 years, and the New Yorker (Feb. 21) says he makes a new one out of hair crepe every time he acts...
Funpokers James Thurber, Wolcott Gibbs, both young, both Manhattanites, both write for the Manhattan smartchart New Yorker...
...certain places and there you always meet certain people. At one place you see Robert Benchley who is incidentally the hard- est working man in New York, and all of that crowd, and at another there is George Jean Nathan and his gang. The staff of 'The New Yorker' has its hang-out as well as 'Life' and 'Judge' and 'Time'. It is really the backbone of a certain phase of social life. And in this crowd stage people are continually mixing. When one is forever bumping into authors, budding and full-blown, one has at least to read...
...chapter on the care of animals is taken for the most part from the Pet Department of the "New Yorker." It deals chiefly with the more subtle sides of animal life, but for all of that quite instructive and thoroughly amusing. He solves such problems as horses with tendencies to take up their residence in the drawing room and adolescent polar bears...
...James Thurber who occupies a high place among the humorists of the "New Yorker" has set forth a work on marriage, care of animals, and the correct use of the subjunctive mood with instructive illustrations under the title of "The Owl In The Attic And Other Perplexities". The first part of this opus has to do with the domestic relations of big, strong Mr. Monroe and little Mrs. Monroe. In spite of Mr. Monroe's great powers as a protector and defender of the weaker sex the conclusion is that real strength lies in unity. He repulses burglars, bats...