Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cubbed for his new job on the Star by pinch-hitting for ailing Wolcott Gibbs in the New Yorker last season. But Lardner's friends wondered how he would find time to cover his new beat. Although he considers himself a free-lance writer, at least four employers consider that they hold a proprietary interest in him. He is a staff contributor (of a sport column) to Newsweek, a staff writer on the New Yorker, a contributor on the new National Guardian (see above), and a veteran, but infrequent, sport columnist for North American Newspaper Alliance. (Newsweek felt...
...James was killed fighting for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. David was killed while a New Yorker correspondent in World...
Died. Russell Maloney, 38, pudgy, chess-playing humorist (It's Still Maloney), onetime New Yorker wit, CBS critic ("Of Men and Books"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...wrecked in the Madeira Islands (he won a medal for saving his guests); his fabulous parties ("sumptuous pleasure campaigns," the papers called them); his romance with Emma Calve, the opera star. "Mr. Higgins," wrote one society editor in 1898, "is not only the richest, but the handsomest unmarried New Yorker. He is a devoted golfer, an expert cross-country rider, a 'good gun,' a skillful fisherman, and a yachtsman of no mean seamanship. Sartorially, he is all that can be desired...
...came back from his flying tour of Europe feeling, in some ways, better. "I think America is four times as important as I thought before I left," said he. "It is ten times as important as the average man thinks, and 100 times as important as the average New Yorker thinks." As for Laborite England, said he, "an international crowd of social climbers have control...