Word: yorkerism
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...nervous undergraduates the results of examinations before the sacred date for the publication of marks, but also, on occasion, raising the marks from failure to passing. One Harvard man assures us that Terry saved more students from flunking out than any professor or tutor in the university. The New Yorker...
...draw away a Confederate and a Union flag from the towering figure of Lee on his favorite warhorse, "Traveler," another New Yorker had been taken to Atlanta. This was small, grave, smooth-cheeked Robert Edward Lee IV, aged 5, whom everyone asks if he is going to be a soldier like his great-grandfather when he grows...
...company. The settings of Robert Edmond Jones are a happy blend of impressionism and historical realism. The operas are sung in English, not in the old hack translations, but in careful adaptations of the words to the music by Robert Simon, the music critic of The New Yorker. For 'Faust' he has prepared a skilfully adapted libretto, while for the other operas English versions have been carefully, though less originally, made...
With the Old Timer's Number the Lampoon has definitely made its break with the traditional Brooks Brothers garb and has stepped out in the smart raiment of the New Yorker. When one sees the cover of this latest number, one wonders only: Why hasn't it happened before? No, one doesn't either! Realizing that the R on the rampant bicyclist's sweater is merely atmosphere, one still wonders if in the good old days those he-hellions did wear Radcliffe sweaters...
Herbert Hoover, of California, placed second to Smith in the vote, getting 19 votes to the New Yorker's 27. Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois, with nine votes, was third...