Word: streamered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even headline-hardened readers of Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express (circ. 305,056) were astonished last week by the seven-column streamer: LINK MARGARET TRUMAN-ADLAI IN ROMANCE...
Another kind of smear comes in a 16-page pamphlet, Headlines and What's Behind Them ("for students, writers and speakers"). A streamer on the front page blares the message: REDS, NEW DEALERS USE IKE IN PLOT TO HOLD POWER. Behind Headlines is pince-nezed Joseph P. Kamp, who edited the Awakener-well-loved by the Nazis-from 1932 until its death in 1936. In 1944 he was cited for contempt of Congress and sentenced (in 1949) to four months in prison. Kamp's touch is far from subtle: he fans anti-Semitic feelings by picturing prominent Jews...
Soon after Taft mounted the rostrum, the droning of an airplane somewhat drowned the remarks of one of the speakers. The plane circled, flaunting a streamer which read: Win with Eisenhower April 29. The crowd was amused, angry, or indifferent, depending on individual political sentiment...
...minutes the Call had the full story splashed across Page One under an eight-column streamer: MISSION HIGH...
...were about ready to break the story. "I can't even reveal my sources to you," he told the Herald's city desk, "so I ask you to accept my word." The Herald-American knew just what to do with the story. It splashed an eight-column streamer across Page One: MOTHER HERE EXPECTS 5 OR 6 BABIES. Under his byline, Stewart wrote that "Obstetricians, using stethoscopes, have detected the heartbeats of six babies." The mother's and doctor's names were not given because "obvious critical medical and psychological problems necessitate such protection...