Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wine, he has produced one thin official volume, October and other poems. Unlike the late great Laureate Tennyson, he has refused to vamp up verses for patriotic occasions and royal birthdays. When he visited the U. S. in 1924 and refused to commemorate the event in rhyme, a Manhattan tabloid carried what newspapermen call the classic headline of all time: KING'S CANARY WILL NOT CHIRP...
Fifteen brass bands preceded Sir William down the Strand. Between the bands lurched and rumbled dozens of gorgeous, ingenious, expensive floats. One series showed the progress of printing from the Gutenberg Bible to the daily tabloid, with Father Time seen at last frantically pecking the keys of a linotype machine...
Short but raucous has been the life of the tabloid Manhattan pornoGraphic. Unlucky lately has been its Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden. Last June, Colyumist Walter Winchell left him for the New York Mirror, a rival tabloid; last July, Editor Emile Henry Gauvreau did the same (TIME, June 17, July 29). Last week, Editor Louis Weitzenkorn deepened the rut by following their examples. But not to the Mirror did Editor Weitzenkorn wend his editorial steps. Said he: to Paris will I go with my wife and dog, devote my time to creative writing...
...father is 'proud to be a radical' was snubbed [in Washington]. Of course, there were the official dinners and the assignment of embassy equeries as her constant companions-but the young men assigned were not of the attractive types."-Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. in Manhattan's tabloid Daily Mirror...
Married. Elinor Patterson Codman, onetime beauteous nun of The Miracle, onetime reporter, and frequent flying companion of her father Joseph Medill Patterson, potent publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Liberty (nickel weekly), the New York Daily News (tabloid); and Griffith Mark, son of Chicago steelman Clayton Mark; at Greenwich, Conn. Her first husband (divorced 1929) was Russel Sturgis Codman Jr,. of Boston...