Word: bernarr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, the Valentino case had given Bernarr Macfadden's Evening ("porno") Graphic opportunity to drool libidinously. According to its headlines and full- full-page accounts, Rudolph Valentino had been poisoned by a jealous female, had been pummeled by a jealous male, had been shot in a supper-club quarrel...
...there is one privilege, always reserved for the tyrannous overlords of previous civilizations, which modern Democracy unquestionably confers upon the masses. It is the privilege of Decadence. Last week the Hearstian tabloid sheetlet, the New York Daily Mirror, outdid even its pandering tabloid rivals, the Daily News and Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's Graphic, in the nice art of tickling the palate of Demos. A week before, a hosiery company had conducted an ankle contest among chorus girls, and the Mirror hit upon the idea of a competition between other parts of girls' bodies. The Mirror delicately chose...
Still, stupid people turn to quacks, hearken to vicious promises, such as appear in the current issue of dolichocephalic Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture. Thus he shrieks in headlines...
Married. Miss Helen Macfadden, 19, daughter of famed Bernarr Macfadden (publisher of True Stories, Physical Culture, Dream World, True Romances, etc.), sometime Follies girl, recently employed as a stenographer by her father at a salary of $4 per week; to Alexander Markey, 34, editor of several of the Macfadden sex magazines; in Manhattan...
...last week scandalmongering, the Graphic (Manhattan), Bernarr Macfadden's gumchewers' sheetlet par excellence, dragged the memory of Mr. Brandegee from the grave? began to publish a serial story of his "Wrecked Love," "Sad Secret" that led to the "Dramatic Death of Political Genius...