Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unwieldy size and staggering columns of type have driven hordes of people to the comforting refuge of the tabloids." This battle cry of tabloids was recently advanced by one of Bernarr Macfadden's subordinates on the New York Evening Graphic. Whether tabloids are a "comforting refuge" is questionable, but the fact remains that the full-sized newspapers have taken on an alarming bulk since the World War. They are not ashamed of their bulk-it represents increasing advertising revenue and new features; it grows bigger every day; it does not seem to fear the tabloid cry. Daily editions...
...Harvard University Press has been awarded the annual medal given by the American Institute of Graphic Arts for the best book printed in the year 1926, judged mainly for its treatment of typographical problems. The volume which won the prize is "A Book of Old Maps" by Fite and Freeman, and the award, which is one of the highest given in America for publishing, has been taken by the University Press three times in the last six years...
...American Institute of Graphic Arts each year has a jury choose 50 books from those that are submitted. These volumes then are exhibited, first in New York and then on a tour of the states, going as far west as California and returning to the Gloria Club, in New York where the best volume is selected...
...rending sooner than save Himself, The necessity for the suffering lies in the evil genius of Caiaphas, the high priest. But Producer Cecil B. DeMille's emphasis throughout is upon the pictured Christ's ability to straighten crooked feet, restore sight, raise the dead, upon the horribly graphic depictions of tortures...
...Mother Snyder and the other man were indicted for murder; Daughter Snyder, aged 9, was in tears. It remained for some worthy soul to preach a great moral lesson. Mr. Hearst's New York Daily Mirror, which is only excelled in vulgarity by Mr. Macfadden's Daily Graphic, assumed the lofty mission. Beneath the two-inch headline, ''INDICTED!" the Daily Mirror published a full page photograph of Daughter Snyder supported by a nondescript woman in a fur coat and a man looking more like a pious bootlegger than an undertaker. Daughter Snyder's head...