Word: sensationalist
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Acknowledging the full legitimacy of the headline appeal, one may yet question the happiness of the selection that gave it birth. The growing impetus of the sensationalist movement has reached its logical goal. There are many who while condemning the course taken by what had become inevitable action, still regret the policy which has given that action its excuse...
Professor Miethe is no quack or sensationalist, but a well-known and conservative scientist. He manufactured his gold only in infinitesimal quantities by passing an electric current through a mercury lamp for periods up to 200 hours. He estimated that at this rate the manufactured gold would cost $2,164,000 a pound, against its currency rate of $331 a pound. Unless Professor Miethe's method of gold production is improved upon, it is apparent that his discovery will have no commercial value or significance...
...Hoffman has been pitiably wasteful with his material; he has contented himself with a mere outline, where an experienced sensationalist could have been really spectacular. For example, it would be interesting to know how large an excavation could be filled with the dirt removed from the ten thousand graves occupied each year by murderers and their victims; and also whether the knives and bullets extracted from the deceased would, if melted up in a large brass cauldron, be numerous enough to east into a life size status of Gyp the Hloon, to be placed at the entrance to Murder Alley...