Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shakespeare First Folio copy (there are some 200 of them) went at auction to an anonymous New Yorker last week for $22,000 -a good price, but way below the record...
...friend's house in Greenwich Village she met William Bass, a cheerful and rotund New Yorker who is now her business adviser. Both were already married,† but they got divorces and were married by the Mayor of Weehawken, N.J. in October 1938. Then came the hardest times of Helen Traubel's life. She and Bill were broke. In a dark two-room West syth Street apartment near Carnegie Hall they cooked occasional lamb stews, sometimes had to scrape up money for food by cashing in on their empty milk and soda-pop bottles. They visited the Central...
...danger in writing like Noel Coward is that you have to do it almost perfectly or you are very apt to come out sounding like a parody executed by the hopeful humorists on the Harvard Lampoon.--Wolcott Gibbs, The Now Yorker...
...band, which the New Yorker called "the best in the country," the rally made the usual parade through Cambridge, ending at the steps of the Indoor Athletic Building. There they heard Freshman Coach Henry Lamar, Torby MacDonald, and members of the team urge them "to come out and cheer hard tomorrow." They also heard the band give encore after encore to the accompaniment of long and thunderous applause...
...musicians, whom the New Yorker rated as members of the best collegiate band in the country, are anxious to maintain their pre-war standards of color and size. Walter J. Skinner '48, Band treasurer, said that the wider student support was necessary if they were to be guaranteed the Hanover trip. An additional collection at the greater Holy Cross game attendance this Saturday was suggested...