Word: tabloidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan tabloids shivered deliciously all last week. A bigwig racketeer whom the police had been after for six months had been captured in bed with a red-headed showgirl, which is the sort of story that gives tabloid editors the courage to go on. The racketeer was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, lawyer for Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer and, since Mr. Flegenheimer's death by violence in 1935, the head of the biggest, crookedest, most profitable racket in the U. S.-the Harlem numbers game. The showgirl was Hope Dare (Rose Ricker), whose chief professional appearance...
...Adventurous Blonde," third in a series of police-tabloid murder-romances, starring glamorous Glenda Farrell, rounds out the bill, and over this picture the curtain of charity should be drawn...
...name Frank Lloyd Wright meant, if anything, the builder of a hotel in Tokyo which by some engineering magic withstood the great earthquake of 1923. To the U. S. man-in-the-subway, his name was associated with scandalous episodes ground from the inhuman human-interest mill of the tabloid newspapers. A decade ago, when the brand-new International Style in architecture was seriously taken up by U. S. architects, many of them were surprised to discover that Wright had been its forerunner 30 years before, that by great European architects such as J. J. P. Oud and Mies...
...Nothing Sacred" stars Carole Lombard in Ben Hecht's story of the girl who faked radium poisoning so that a New York tabloid would rescue her from Vermont and show her how America lives. If the picture is not as hilarious as advance ballyhoo led everyone to believe, it is because Frederic March takes his part as the obituary editor (and Mr. Hecht's means of de-bunking New York) altogether too seriously...
...News to operate at a profit under present rising costs. Fortnight ago, like a move in a game of Monopoly, Mr. Knight gave Moses L. Annenberg, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Massillon, Ohio Independent as part-payment for Mr. Annenberg's three-year-old tabloid Miami Tribune. Mr. Knight killed the growing Tribune, moved the Herald into Miami's youngest newspaper plant, the $300,000 building departing Mr. Annenberg had just...