Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reports of the committees investigating the disaster have not yet been published. Can their report explain why the Government did not place the magazines under ground, where danger would have been minimized? Can they discount the contention of Professor Pupin of Columbia University, as given by Hearst-Editor Brisbane, that sheet copper roofings connected by huge copper bands directly with wet earth would have frustrated even this "act of God?" The system of lightning rod protectors at Lake Denmark is obviously inefficient. The Government controls immense voltages of electricity at Niagara Falls; why have not engineers sought a method...
...therefore foolish. Voluptuous, well-fleshed women are preferable, the article tried to say. More or less appropriately, poses by Marjorie Rambeau, Lenore Ulric, Gertrude Ederle, Ethel Barrymore, Helen Wills were printed to illustrate the point. The interesting thing was a detail which used to be unusual for a Hearst paper. However vulgar his aims and practices, Publisher Hearst never used to be accused, even by his most nauseated critics, of hiring writers ignorant of the English language. Yet in this article some Hearstling had committed a ludicrous blunder. The headline read and the text reiterated: "THE REAL BEAUTIES HAVE FULSOME...
Publisher Hearst's descent from the newspaper to the tabloid, from pardonable news-sensation to illiteracy, occurred in 1924 when he established the Mirror to compete with the Patterson-McCormick Daily News...
Perennial Hearst Columnist Arthur Brisbane touted last week an honor conferred upon himself by the late famed fisticuffer, Robert ("Lanky Bob") Fitzsimmons...
Arrowheaded, encyclopedic Hearst-Editor Arthur Brisbane recorded an incident in his column "Today" (reputedly read by one-third of all U. S. literates...