Word: yorkerism
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...work of discovering humble youths with fine voices and of financing them along the path to glory, went on apace. A few weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 8), the young New Yorker Raggini, whose friends raised money for his studies by selling shares in his future. Now it is Antonio Benninatti, New Orleans shoemaker...
...Shenandoah Valley News, of Waynesboro-Basic, Va., published an editorial headed The New Yorker, under which appeared these pronouncements...
...most provincial-minded person in the world is the typical New Yorker. . . . He believes the sun rises just over the East River and sets behind the Palisades...
...tell the New Yorker anything is impossible. Perhaps that is why he is so ignorant. Even Greenwich Village is sophisticated to the last degree, hardened in its own imbecility. Humor ... is totally lacking. The typical New Yorker never laughs. To him it is a confession of credulance...
...average New Yorker is a European and the average European has a tough stomach. It was perhaps on this account that New Yorkers were able to assimilate " combined " newspapers for ten days during a pressmen's strike (TiMB, Oct. 1). By the tenth day the strike had dissipated its force and New York newspapers resumed their separate identities...