Madhattan (mad + Manhattan)

"Madhattan" (fmad + Manhattan) illustrates the craziness of New York City. James Aswell (1906-1955) used "Madhattan" often in his "New York" newspaper columns in 1932 and 1933.


7 May 1932, Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, WI), pg. 8:
NEW YORK
By JAMES ASWELL
(By Central Press)
New York -- Marginalia of a Madhattanite:
(...)
Mah-jong shows no sign of coming back and, of course, Madhattanites of the rank and file would laugh at you if you suggested evenings in which people simply talked and learned things about each other.

12 August 1932, Mansfield (OH) News, pg. 6:
NEW YORK
By JAMES ASWELL
(By Central Press)
NEW YORK, Aug. 12 -- Day and Night Book of a Madhattanite:
7 November 1932, Mansfield (Ohio) News, pg. 13:
NEW YORK
By JAMES ASWELL
(...)
Here are a few of the reasons why Madhattan insurance agents go gray: ...

17 November 1932, Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, WI), pg. 7:
My New York
By James Aswell
(By Central Press)
New York --Madhattan Vignettes.

12 October 1933, Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, WI), pg. 7:
My New York
By James Aswell
(By Central Press)
New York -- Madhattan, potpouri!
(...)
So goes success in Madhattan!

Google Books
Esquire
Volume 2, Issues 4-7
1934
Pg. 98:
The nature of their work being especially adapted to concocting clever names for places, they have divided their own "Noo Yawk" into the Stem, the (Main) Drag, the Artery, Maraudway, the Milky Way, the Galaxy, the Gay White Way, the Dirty White Way, the Big or Main Alley, the Grandest Canyon, the Glittering Stem, Mazda Lane, Neon Boulevard, the (Big) Gulch, Gin Gulch, the Noisy Lane, the Street, Wailing Wall Street, the (Grand) Canyon, the Golden Canyon, Hard Times Square, Pokahvenoo, the Roaring Forties, the Naughty Nineties, Mad-hattan, etc., etc.

The Internet Movie Database
Plot Summary for
Madhattan Island (1947)
A mildly comic tour of Manhattan Island includes famous buildings, Wall Street, subways, cab drivers, the Lincoln Tunnel, Broadway, and concludes with three Bouncing Ball sing-alongs.

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