Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when two swarthy thugs held up the New Yorker Delicatessen Store (one in a chain of 67) on 58th Street, in the genteel shadow of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, it was the hand of history itself which struck among the liverwursts...
...nearby homes, such as those of the Faculty. Others are living in the inevitable Quenset Huts several blocks from the center of the University. How rough this life is or isn't varies undoubtedly with the individuals concerned, but a definite ray of light was east by a New Yorker correspondent recently, who on passing a Quenset Huf and "glaneing through a window, saw a maid in apron and lace-cap briskly shaking up cockfails...
Just in time for the Christmas trade, this tiny book contains perhaps the nearest thing to piety in Mencken's writings. It is a moral tale, told in the Sage of Baltimore's redolent and contented prose. The story-originally printed in the New Yorker-attests to the triumph of Christian reflexes over heathen among the bums of Baltimore 45 years...
Onward & Upward. Ben McKelway, brother of blond, bland St. Clair McKelway of the New Yorker and Hollywood, has risen steadily in the Star's white-tiled, Gothic pile at 11th and Pennsylvania Avenue ever since patriarchal Theodore W. Noyes, its second editor, hired him as a reporter in 1921. Next month he will move into Noyes's triangular, Victorian top-floor office...
...White plugs federal world government with the dazed urgency of an Esperanto salesman. He has the same high purpose, the same rosy vision, the same conviction that all it needs is a try. This collection of his slick New Yorker editorials ("they were written sometimes in anger and always in haste"), will appeal mostly to readers who clearly comprehend such a touchstone as: "Meantime we will continue to believe that although a man may have to compromise with Russia he can never compromise with truth...