Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the cold struck, upper-class Cantonese got out kerosene stoves to heat their homes. Visitors from the north and foreign diplomats retreated to cold, damp, black-&-white-tiled hotel rooms where they vainly tried to fight off the chill. Said one homesick New Yorker: "You'd think we were exiled in the men's room of the Pennsylvania Station...
...story of a Communist organizer (This Is Your Day) further established his skill-and his slant. He had been a contributor to the New Masses, but while his left hand was busy with ideological chores, his right was making a reputation for him with short stories in The New Yorker...
...last week as he prepared to retire, it seemed that these improvements had only increased the hoots, catcalls, and cries of anguish amid which he has done his work. The New Yorker is a creature who feels that the weather ought to be regulated rather than predicted: there is evidence that he believes Parry controls a fiendish mechanism which causes rain whenever he plans a weekend at the beach, or snow when he parks his automobile in the street...
...last week's issue of The New Yorker, Lexicographer H. L. Mencken* took a long look at the developing language of television. Like other barbaric dialects, Mencken found, it includes many borrowings from earlier cultures (theater, movies, radio); and TV's own coinages, as reported by Variety and assorted philologers, seemed to consist largely of the obvious, like ike for iconoscope. Other samples of current video verbiage given by Mencken...
...Well, now. What is it exactly you want?" I told her it was to be called a "Profile" and referred her to those in "The New Yorker," which I saw she had been reading. "But they're mythical," she said. I made a noise to indicate bewilderment. "They're mythical, aren't they? Those people surely aren't real...