Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that one park under construction is worth a quart of green ink on a city map. As Park Commissioner and the city's construction coordinator, he has done more to reshape New York's aging face than any other man in the last 14 years. The New Yorker's Lewis Mumford is what Moses scornfully calls "an Ivory Tower" planner, a devoted disciple of Scotland's famed planner, Sir Patrick Geddes, and a learned critic who for years has been examining Manhattan's skyline with a dour eye. A fortnight ago, the two were hooting...
...Richard H. Rovere, in the Oct. 9 New Yorker: "Traveling with [Truman], you get the feeling that the American people . . . would . . . give him just about anything he wants except the presidency...
...entire family-her husband (Willem Nyland, a chemist), two children, a collie and 17 cats-sometimes congregate in the studio while she draws wallpaper designs or New Yorker covers. It doesn't bother...
Dawson cited the case of William James Sidis, the ex-child prodigy who sued the New Yorker for rediscovering him in his clerkly obscurity with ', "Where Are They Now?" piece. The court granted that Sidis' privacy had been invaded-but threw out the case because, as Sidis had been a person in the public eye, the story still "possesses great reader interest...
...work on Washington. Here visitors, and even his family, are forbidden. On the walls are autographed pictures of his friends Winston Churchill and Admiral Nimitz, a letter from President Roosevelt thanking Freeman for suggesting the term "liberation" instead of the "invasion" of Europe, and a Helen Hokinson New Yorker cartoon in which a bewildered matron returns two fat volumes to her bookshop, saying: "I guess I bit off more 'Robert E. Lee' than I could chew...