and over the years it was famous for its splashy ads (two-page spreads inTheNew Yorkerwere common) and dozens of celebrity endorsements…Lux isn’t as dominant in the U.S. today, but it remains a major international brand, now sold and marketed by the British multinational Unilever,...
pencils and perhaps her old college dictionary) morphed into the “boffin” and then the computer nerd; crossword solving, originally disparaged as a frivolous pastime that was rotting young women’s already unimpressive brains, came to be understood as a form of mental calisthenics...
It is always with a tinge of sadness that I write aboutMorris Markey, who from the start wrote for virtually every department atTheNew Yorkerand was best known for his “A Reporter at Large” feature. According to his obituary inThe New York Times, Markey won his greatest recognition for t...
What is a three-letter word for “preppy, party-loving, egotistical male, in modern lingo”? Answer: “Bro”. When Anna Shechtman, a cruciverbalist (crossword constructor), introduced this clue to the New York Times crossword puzzle in 2014, readers took notice. “Bro” was traditionally ...
Century Dictionary notes the ecclesiastical use of cantus in Medieval Latin, and writes, “The word cant may thus have become associated with beggars; but there may have been also an allusion to a perfunctory performance of divine service and hence a hypocritical use of religious phrases.” The...
Lola is a hip, modern New Yorker. She’s an editor, now in her early 30’s. She’s had her string of boyfriends and lovers but is currently living a boyfriend whom she will be marrying soon. On one particular night out with some friends Lola steps away from the gathering to pick ...
In the space of a few decades the housewife constructing puzzles at her kitchen table (using graph paper, pencils and perhaps her old college dictionary) morphed into the “boffin” and then the computer nerd; crossword solving, originally disparaged as a frivolous pastime that was rotting ...
…William Crawford Galbraithgave us a sugar daddy without a clue… …E. McNerneyshowed us another pair that begged the question “what comes next?”… …thisMary Pettycartoon recallsCarl Rose’sfamous “I say its spinach” cartoon—and Mamma has every right to say “the hell with it” in...
successful flight across the Atlantic in June 1928. Stultz was the pilot of the Fokker Trimotor “Friendship,” aboard which Earhart became the first woman passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane. Gordon served as the flight’s on-board mechanic. (Boston Public Library/New York Times/...
GOOD SPORT…Mayor Walker presides over the first shot in the city’s annual marble tournament on June 3, 1928. (New York Times) * * * Remembrance of Things Past AlthoughThe New Yorkerembraced the spirit imbued in the city’s rapidly changing skyline, there was always a tinge of regret ...