Word: guttering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people of Hot Springs, Ark., were stirred one evening last fortnight as they had not been stirred since April 6, 1917. A pack of newsboys, coursing through the crowded streets at cinema time, were baying like gutter beagles, "UX-try, UX-tree-e! 'Clare War on Chine! M'rines goin' tuh Chine! UX-try! UX-tree! War wit' Chine...
Farmers put their hands in their pockets, edged to the curb and stared at the gathering excitement. Town men deserted their girl friends to snatch for the gutter beagles' wares, across which screamed the headlines...
Viewers with alarm of the possible inroads of the gutter-press upon the circulations of sound newspapers, were relieved last week. The New York Times, lodestar of U. S. journalism, announced that it has passed another high mark. In 1912 the Times passed 200,000; in 1918, 300,000. For the six months ending March 31, 1927, its Sunday and daily average was 414,990, an average gain of 22,295 over the corresponding period of 1925-26. As the Times itself admitted...
...Newark a Hip Sing yellow-man made the error of invading a Chinese quarter settled almost entirely by On Leong Tongmen. There were 26 bullets in his body when the police found it, like a blood-stained yellow tabloid, in the gutter...
...rumblings and the misfortunes of a certain Snyder family of Queens Village, Long Island, fought last week for the big black type of Eastern newspapers. In semi-respectable journals, China dominated on the average of five days .out of seven. But in the tabloids and in the full-sized gutter sheets, the Snyders maintained at least a four-day supremacy. It was an unfortunate crime-Father Snyder was killed; 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...