Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indefatigable conspirator against the rights and independence of the individual American," said her ultimate goal was "some scheme containing the most binding elements of Communism and Hitlerism"; denounced her "innocent, wholehearted, humane enthusiasm" as "only a disguise." To Mrs. Roosevelt's defense leaped the smart-chart New Yorker, which has social sensibilities if not a social sense. After a mixed tribute to the Pegler prose ("a nice combination of ginmill epithet and impeccable syntax"), The New Yorker deplored "discussing the First Lady as if she were a crooked wrestling promoter...
Last week The New Yorker ably stated its case against the dictators...
...issue contains record reviews and feature articles by critics and musicians who were all listening to this stuff back in the days when you and I though Casa Loma played hot music. In addition, there are cartoons by John Groth, whose work you know from Esquire and the New Yorker, and photographs by Charles Peterson, who is recognized as the leading photographer of swing musicians in the country...
...confined to those who could "skate a complete circle on each foot and jump over first one, then two, then three hats." In 1863, when Haines won the figure-skating championship of the U. S., the sport consisted of stiff tracings judged only by accuracy. Haines, a New Yorker who had studied ballet, was the first skater to put form into figure skating...
...setback when W. C. Fields announced that he didn't need Moral Re-Armament but would take anything in a bottle. Gertie did a scene from Susan and God and preached a sermon at the late Rev. Christian Fichthorne Reisner's Broadway (Methodist-Episcopal) Temple. The New Yorker hailed her entry into the pulpit with the comment: "That, fellows, is our idea of divine service...