Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reported the New Yorker three weeks ago: "A little group of animal lovers organized . . . under the title Mouse Beautiful are out to capture the flagging interest of former guppy-and ant-fanciers. . . . Their bait, as the quick ones among you will have guessed, is mice-white ones, the same sort as those now scampering madly all over the best London drawing rooms...
...Yorker did not reveal: that the "group of animal lovers" was one Marcia O'Day, attractive little 28-year-old brunette; that the Mouse Beautiful started as a joke among her friends; that Miss O'Day does not breed mice but buys them from a pet shop...
...Yorker was evidently unaware that white mice are no longer an fait in London drawing rooms. More than 20 colors are now available-bred by experts who give mouse shows, regard mouse breeding as Big Business and to whom white mice...
...founded as an elevator repair company in 1883, when elevators were still a rarity, by Alonzo Bertram See, an upstate New Yorker with exceptionally downright opinions even in his teens. He worked for Otis for a while, then set up his own shop in a basement on Manhattan's Centre Street. Thence he moved to Brooklyn and started manufacturing A. B. See elevators. By 1909 Mr. See had a $1,000,000 business, still largely consisting of carriage lifts (for storing carriages in stables) and genteel elevators for four-and six-story brownstone houses. About that time Alonzo...
...imitations of TIME, called Cavalcade and News Review. This month, the British reading and picture-looking public was handed two more copies of recent U. S. magazine hits. One was Coronet-sized, Esquire-angled Lilliput, "The Pocket Magazine for everyone." The other was a frank imitation of the New Yorker christened Night and Day. Both were printed on smooth paper, sold for sixpence (12?). Lilliput contains ten articles (Sam Goldwyn, Upton Sinclair), ten stories (Liam 0'Flaherty, Sacha Guitry), ten cartoons ("I think there's been a mistake, you've sent a gout up to maternity...