Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though it was only necessary to avoid Broadway to avoid the Legion's muscular humor, many a New Yorker was less than charmed by the spectacle of baying, middle-aged men cavorting through the streets. The New York Post's "Saloon Editor" Earl Wilson predicted: "New York will never tolerate the American Legion again." A World War II combat infantryman wrote a letter to the New York Daily News: "A warning to any Legion clown who approaches me: you must have paid plenty for those store teeth, Pop. . . . No sense getting them all mashed...
...Author Weidman has grown older, but his sympathy for his fellow man has not increased noticeably with the years. A few of the 21 stories in this collection, written between 1939 and 1947, are slick magazine products with a happy ending, but the majority appeared first in the New Yorker and wear a kind of civilized brutality. Readers will miss the garlicky locale of his earlier books, but they will feel the sting of the old Weidman venom...
Memories. Outside of the heat, the biggest single topic of conversation was so old last week that it hardly got into the headlines at all. That was the price of things. People did talk about prices in astonished and belligerent tones, like a New Yorker reporting that his pocket had been picked in Kalamazoo, Mich. Many swore they had done better on lower wages before...
When E. J. Kahn some months ago wrote a New Yorker article telling how his black horn-rimmed glasses had got him branded as a Communist, the anecdote was good for a big giggle. But today, with President and Republican opposition elbowing each other energetically in a scuffle to see whose version of "radical" will be publicized in the upcoming purge, Kahn's article could at best draw only sickly smiles. For now, when the questions of the reconstituting of Europe, the possibility of new wars, and whether we Americans are going to be eating hearty a few years from...
Last week Hollenbeck glowed over the New Yorker for "one of the best jobs of journalism about journalism we've ever seen": a three-part profile of Reuben Maury, who writes editorials "on both sides of a question with apparent conviction" for both the Daily News and Collier's. Then Hollenbeck nipped at a cartoonist for picturing a major general with only one star...