Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no crime in paying one hundred dollars to try to be amused at a night-club, but it is ridiculous to agree with Vanity Fair and the New Yorker that it is sophistication to do so. Rather it is the sheerest childishness. It is too bad someone cannot be spanked...
...everyone whom the New Yorker criticized sued the magazine it would be blessed with untold press notices and hounded with several hundred warrants. Most metropolitan actors and authors, and even some metropolitan architects, consider one slam in the New Yorker worth two favorable notices in less fashionable journals, for standards of criticism vary and what brings comment from Dorothy Parker and her playmates usually becomes the season's rage. Mr. Severance should not take offence--he should not even take $500,000. If he were to go to the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty Fourth Street tomorrow, he would...
That amusing and quite frivolous weekly the New-Yorker, has reached journalistic maturity--for it is being sued for "defaming the name of a citizen". The gospel of the sophisticates took occasion to criticize the structure known as the Delmonico Building, comparing the grace of the tower to that of "an over-grown grain elevator", and found that legal complications ensued. The Delmonico Building, unfortunately for the New Yorker, did not "just grow" a In Harriet Beecher Stowe, but was designed by an architect, one no less than Mr. H. Craig Severance, who appears to be extremely sensitive to derogatory...
There will, of course, be many who think this another opportunity to prepare for a future on "The New Yorker" or "Vanity Fair". It is not quite that. The University as faced with a different situation. The CRIMSON, as has been said, is strongly in favor of remedying that situation. And this competition is the first constructive item toward some progress in the matter...
...many American artists paint portraits that are portraits of a New Yorker, but not of the human being...