Word: yorkerism
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...Stoddard Johnson, a prominent Democratic editor and politician, and a nephew of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnson, the Confederate general who fell at Shiloh. His piece was entitled "The Lost Cause," and was an eloquent, highly rhetorical, and truly Southern defence of his people. Mr. Leonard is a New Yorker, and chose for his subject "William Lloyd Garrison," his oration being a review of the same question from a Northern stand-point and a vindication of the anti-slavery movement. Fifteen years after the bitter conflict has closed students from the opposing sections defend, on a New England college platform, each...
Harper's Weekly states that Larkin G. Mead, the American sculptor, has been made professor in the Academy of Fine Arts at Florence; Dr. Walstein, a New Yorker, lectures at Oxford on archaeology; and that an American named Coolidge is professor in a Welsh college...
HAROLD C. U. SHARP, aristocratic New-Yorker...
...dust which has been accumulating for eight decades, to obtain a view of the country as it appeared at the end of the last century. Besides, this is the Centennial year, when people everywhere are looking up the records of the past. So let every New-Englander and New-Yorker, and every one who is interested in any New England or New York town, look up President Dwight's account of this place eighty years...
...YORKER who saw one of the Nine going to recitation in his uniform the other day was struck with his great resemblance to Tweed in his island suit...