Word: tabloidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Filthy, obscene, contaminating, Also in good spirits as she landed in Manhattan to close a $1,000 contract to tell her story to the tabloid Daily News last week, was Miss Isobel Lillian Steele, the U. S. music student whom Nazis arrested and held for four months at Berlin, charging her with everything from Communism to espionage (TIME...
SINCE 1914-J. H. Landman-Barnes & Noble ($1.50). Handy political handbook of the post-War world, in tabloid size, arrangement, format...
...screaming tabloid made this charge last week but the sedate Osservatore Romano, personal newsorgan of His Holiness Pope Pius XI. Added the Church's mouthpiece with bitter irony: "It cannot be hoped that the political world will act against such monstrosities, because the political world acts only when crimes are connected with political objectives, such as the assassinations of Chancellor Dollfuss and King Alexander. In Spain the victims were only obscure priests...
...Newark is a tabloid newspaper called the Ledger, published by a brawny, hot-tempered Westerner named Lucius T. Russell Sr. Setting himself up in Newark some 15 years ago, Publisher Russell attracted instant attention with a local vice crusade, splashed pictures of Newark brothels with names of the property owners daily on the Ledger's front.page. His crack rewrite man was Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, later to win the Pulitzer Prize for his European correspondence for the old New York Evening Post (TIME...
...currently performing on Broadway in Noel Coward's Conversation Piece (TIME, Nov. 5); and Sacha Guitry, French actor-playwright; in Paris, on grounds of "reciprocal adultery." Finding both parties guilty, the court granted an impartial decree, canceled Mile Printemps' 6,000-franc monthly allowance. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News gushed editorial approval of this "sensible" ruling, seized a chance to lambaste U. S. divorce laws...