Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good. Something had to be. I made Aubrey Beardsley drawings on the table cloth with a gusto possessed recently by the Six and drank ginger beer between cigarettes. I might have for the moment in the dashing delightful and all that sort of thing place one reads about in tabloid newspapers coming home on the subway. I wasn't. It is an axiom that the most devilmaycare gesture allowed one now is to get arrested for drunken driving. And one can't buy a car on the pay from staying in nights writing this sort of thing while the Choral...
Last week the news was spread: Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, aged 28, was in financial difficulties. His tabloid newspapers, the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News (maximum circulation 214,000), San Francisco Illustrated Daily Herald (maximum circulation 135,000), the Miami Tab (only 18 months old) needed more money. He had sunk $100,000 of his own money. He had 5,000 fellow stockholders. He had borrowed $1,080,000 from his father. But he still needed $300,000 to put his papers on a paying basis?and his father would lend him no more. He tried to pledge his patrimony?...
...Francisco paper suspended publication. The others dropped their Sunday editions. The Chicago Tribune, which succeeded in establishing the financially most successful tabloid in America, sneered: "It is evident that the secret of a newspaper cannot be found as in a recipe for a cake...
...very first rank and a self-made man every inch of the way. How much insistence and assistance from her lay behind young Vanderbilt's break from Hearst, his formation of the C-V Feature Service and later his beginnings of a grander venture, a chain of tabloid newspapers, doubtless young Vanderbilt himself could not say. Perhaps it was very largely her vigorous nature's impatience with any thing or man not standing on its or his own feet that steeled her husband, Macbeth-wise, to great ambitions; to make a place for himself so that he could...
Little, however, as I frequent the palace of the tabloid drama, I have been strongly impressed by one thing: in every picture that I can remember having seen, the writer of the scenario seems to have been constrained to include a banker of an invariably constant type. There is a je ne sais quoi about the moving picture financier which never fails to irritate me. I have tried to find a reason for this badge of the banker, but have failed. So this morning at 9 o'clock, any one who so desires may see me enter the portal...