Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. The serious, sociological tone of Leo Calvin Rosten's study belies his creation of the comic character, Hyman Kaplan, in the New Yorker, where he uses the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross. Polish-born, short, dark-eyed and heavy-lidded, Mr. Rosten at two was taken to Chicago where he soon began to fight poverty with animated ingenuity. A University of Chicago scholarship started his education and he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. After a year of browsing in Europe, unable to find the newspaper job he wanted when he returned to Chicago, Author Rosten lectured in the Midwest...
Within three hours after the polls had closed that evening, every New Yorker knew that a LaGuardia landslide, fully as sweeping as expected, had perhaps permanently changed the political landscape of the biggest city in the U. S. Candidate Mahoney's congratulatory telegram was sent from his headquarters at 9:15. Shortly thereafter telegrams went to the rest of the Fusion ticket, District Attorney-Elect Thomas E. Dewey, Comptroller-Elect Joseph D. McGoldrick, and Newbold Morris, elected president of the New City Council whose members were chosen by proportional representation to replace the old Tammany-controlled Board of Aldermen...
...Masses and The New Yorker together, shake hard, Gallicize, move back a century to the time when to be Left in France was to be Republican, and you have something like La Caricature and its daily successor Le Charivari, the periodicals by which Honore Daumier earned 30 years' living, six months in jail, and undying fame as an artist. Beginning in the second decade after the Napoleonic Wars, hardworking lithographers including Traviès, Gavarni and Grandville filled these sheets with caricatures of Bonapartist reactionaries and canting bourgeois. Daumier, who worked hardest & longest, died blind and penniless...
...started on October 16, when, on the first page of "Notes and Coment," the New Yorker supposedly lost its illusions and declared that "the six-foot base drum in the Harvard band is a phoney." Result of this sudden and undeserved notoriety of the giant precession instrument has been a flood of publicity, news photos and wiaccracks during the last two weeks, including a mammoth burlesque of inanimate maternity by pacudo-obatririenna from Hanover before the deluge at the Dartmouth game...
...just before the game, the drummers discovered that the calfskin had torn loose from one side and unfortunately could not be fixed in time for the game. Necessarily, it had to be played rather softly that day, which by mischance happened to be the very one when a New Yorker spy (maybe two) was secreted in the stands. Such is life...