Word: sensationalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mark. No. 3 press lord is Lord Camrose of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post* (700,000), a Conservative who suffers from gout and jaundice. No. 2 is Lord Rothermere. He acquired control of the Daily Mail (1.530,000) from his brother, Lord Northcliffe, a sensationalist who fathered the whole lordly breed. No. 1, by intelligence, ability, resource and his gift for the common touch-as well as by circulation figures- is William Maxwell (''Max") Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook. He is a fair little man whose possessions include the smile and manners of a spoiled bad boy, two other...
...This sort of exaggeration is all that one can expect from a certain type of sensationalist literature," continues Miss Temple...
Dean Sperry reviews all the other opinions of Wordsworth's dismal anti-climax, giving in every case the devil his due and showing what facts each ignores. His own belief is, that Wordsworth in embracing the sensationalist psychology from Hartly, out of Locke and Hume, was pursuing a course detrimental to the continuation and enhancement of his poetic powers and the Dean gives his reasons lucidly and even persuasively...
LONG a dark secret to the untravelled, Africa is now so much before the eyes and ears of the world, we feel perhaps that bounties should be shifted from man-eating lions and placed upon the heads of sensationalist writers who seek to debunk the country of every lingering element of charm. But to those of us who first heard a leopard snarl or the Ashango tomtoms beat in the pages of a Paul Du Chaillu book, Africa will remain the magic land forever. Now appears for the first time a life account of the man who had this ability...
...Terry Barberlit, onetime hobo, circus-pegger, doughboy, sailor, anarchist, con man, all-time sensationalist and wanderer of the world, was 56 and looked older until you got in a fight with him. Terry was resting from his labors by peddling snake oil medicine in country villages when he ran into Ruth, a young garage-owning widow with a viperish tongue. She liked him more than he liked her. She asked him over for a drink. When he left town next day she went with him. Terry had agreed to look after her for a year, because she wanted...