Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steinberg's drawings, which have most frequently appeared in The New Yorker, have a timeless, durable, hieroglyphic quality, as if their acid comments on human affairs had eaten into stone. Steinberg has a great liking for bits of ornamental detail (they are almost his trademark) as in his drawing of Hermann Göring drenched with medals. One of the outstanding drawings in his show portrayed the two sparsely clad Axis dictators in a theater dressing room ("Benito & Adolf-Aryan Dancers...
Readers who have wondered what has happened to the red-faced, satiric talents of Sinclair Lewis will be relieved to know that nothing has. Of his Prodigal Parents (1938) the New Yorker quipped...
Classy Doodler. In 1937 Breger got $30 for a cartoon from the Saturday Evening Post. Almost immediately he retired from sausages to become a professional cartoonist. His free-lance products sold fairly regularly to such magazines as the Post, Collier's, Parade, This Week, Esquire, Click, The New Yorker. Career No. 1 seemed assured, when he was drafted...
Girl we know phoned the other day. Said we ought to take a look at the latest New Yorker, because it had three things by Harvard men in it. Our man went round to pick it up and reports that the lady's right, and he's found three other references to Harvard in it. This makes it far and away the most solidly Crimson issue in the last eight years, he said, a little defiantly...
Best thing was the New Yorker's quote of a jaunty Bar Association yearbook that explains wisely, "His father considered that he was too young, and ... he went to Princeton for a year before entering Harvard." There's a nice little slam at Abercrombie & Fitch...