Word: graphically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full to talk. This mousy character was called Bellflower; actually he was Russel Grouse, columnist of the New York Evening Post, making his demure debut on the stage. For the antics of Columnist Grouse all critics had a pretty word to say. Walter Winchell of the New York Evening Graphic called him SourCrouse while the Actor-Journalist's wife, Alison Smith, able critic for the New York World, paid her husband the neatest compliment...
...tremendous burst of journalism followed. Pictures of the unhappy couple were shown in the Evening composo-Graphic. For postures which the two twins would not or could not adopt, chorines were employed. The surgeon who proposed to divorce the pair, one Francis Pantesco Watson, was interviewed by reporters. The Graphic's circulation jumped 40,000, because its readers were delighted with this ingenious tale of romance and deformity...
...section headed True Stories, Timely Topics, Virile Features, the New York Evening pornoGraphic published a 20-year-old legend about an obscure singer, Margerita Sylva. The greatest Carmen of them all, the Graphic called Singer Sylva, but this was not the meat of the story. Like nearly everything else in the tabloid the story had to do with matters of sex. Since Singer Sylva's reputation is comparatively unsmirched, the story's title was "A CARMEN WHO NEVER Played with Love...
Searching for pictures to make the story intelligible to the majority of its purchasers, the Graphic rooted out no satisfactory portrait of the Carmen who never played with love. So, not in the least disconcerted, its editors found a picture of another opera star, famed Maria Jeritza, showing her face in an expression of unbridled invitation. The editors published this photograph with the story about Margerita Sylva; there was no caption printed under it; it was not stated that it represented Margerita Sylva. The editors were confident that few Graphic readers would recognize Jeritza, even though similar huge pictures...
...first week, practically no notice was taken of the proceedings. It was regarded as uninteresting, futile, vulgar. On the tenth day the New York Evening Graphic published "doctored" photographs of contestants, showing faces that were thinned and blackened with exhaustion, suggesting that the dance marathon was not only silly but cruel. At this, a vast throng of persons rushed to Madison Square Garden and bought their way in. The marathon which had hitherto been a financial failure bloomed into success. The dancers, whose ranks were by this time greatly reduced, became famous and excited; they whirled and shuffled happily, receiving...