Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another was Wisconsin's hulking Interior Secretary Cap Krug. He had the disadvantage of John Lewis' sworn enmity, but the advantage of a World War II record in the Navy and enormous political ambition. (In the capital last month a mysterious tabloid called the Washington Examiner had already started booming him for the presidency...
...been well described as a stand-patter. It is honest enough in its way, but its features and editorials more often than not retain a juvenile small-time flavor as if unable to forget the nostalgic picture of Los Angeles in a more placid past. Finally there is a tabloid which, despite a reasonably intelligent and liberal editorial policy, runs repeatedly to the blatant at the expense of more significant coverage...
...York's tabloid Daily News headlined: POX VACCINE . . . MAY SIDETRACK CUPID. The story: because vaccination sometimes causes a false positive Wassermann, vaccinated couples, required by state .aw to pass the Wassermann test before getting a marriage license, would have to delay their weddings until their vaccinations wear...
Frankie was charged with battery and freed on $500 bail. He would be tried by a jury May 27. He flew off to Manhattan, where the Council Against Intolerance in America gave him a prize for other efforts. Manhattan's left-winging tabloid PM, on Frankie's side, dignified the brawl with a 1,000-word editorial. (He "must have warmed the hearts of millions," said PM-but conceded that this was probably not the best way to strike a blow at race prejudice.) In the Hearstpapers-which painstakingly reviewed Frankie's association with left-wing groups...
...tabloid readers with long memories, the Galápagos were the home of a lady known as Baroness Eloise, whose favorite costume was a pair of silk panties and a pearl-handled pistol. In 1934 she vanished with the latest of her seedy lovers and has not been sighted since-much to the chagrin of Sunday-supplement editors. Since her day the archipelago has been popularly regarded, at least by tabloid readers, as a lovers' Eden, with hibiscus and orchids everywhere and acquiescent beauty under every bush. But U.S. Army & Navy men who were stationed during...