Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Burlesque. Three weeks before this smashing climax in the Byrd Expedition, Funnyman Robert Benchley had done a piece for The New Yorker, burlesquing crack Reporter Owen. Excerpts...
...completed a whole fortnight's visit in Manhattan without doing anything outrageous, and had been received as persona grata by General and Mrs. Vanderbilt. Today Nephew Gwynne-no bankrupt-is the solvent, industrious and incorporated publisher of The Boulevardier, a Paris smart-chart resembling Manhattan's New Yorker...
Confirmation of this story came last week when the New Yorker said it was so, on good, though anonymous, authority...
...natural that Artist Arno should find his niche in an urbane journal of fripperies and follies. Such a journal is the weekly New Yorker which, since its inception four years ago, has contained his work. The New Yorker has more to say about polo and modistes than about multilateral treaties. It is a chic Baedecker for those who will be chic. It was in this magazine that Artist Arno exploited-his famed Whoops Sisters, a pair of blithe Victorian crones who swept with muffs and bonnets about the city, never had their shoes off while the fleet was in, stood...
...Haven grill and Manhattan's Rendezvous. He began to decorate night clubs as well as play in them, and gradually abandoned the tonal for the graphic art. He painted ornamental screens full of bearded Russians of red-coated huntsmen with filigrees of bugles and hounds. But the New Yorker encouraged his satiric sense and he found his metier. Last year he married Lois Long, onetime night club and restaurant expert of the New Yorker. They have a small daughter...