Word: tabloidally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PornoGraphic: a Manhattan tabloid...
...persons. Deprived of their No. 1 advertising medium, the five biggest Wilkes-Barre stores have distributed a weekly "Shoppers Bulletin" to 73,000 homes. (Total circulation of the dormant evening News, Times-Leader and morning Record: 73,000.) Smaller stores have combined to publish a 24-page tabloid "Buyers Guide" with about 53.000 circulation, which also takes paid classified ads. By agreement, no local merchant is advertising in Scranton and other out-of-town newspapers sold in Wilkes-Barre. One store has tried radio bingo and quizzes to bring in business...
When Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands bore a baby girl last year, many Dutchmen were downcast. They wanted a boy. In Manhattan thoughtful Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the tabloid Daily News got to thinking about this and about all the family headaches, royal crises, useless conversation and bad guesses caused by similar uncertainties throughout history. He told his staff to see what could be done to end them...
...last week it looked as though Publisher Patterson's curiosity was about to wind up in either: 1) the biggest fiasco of his career; or 2) the scientific scoop of the decade. Because topflight geneticists would not work with a tabloid newspaper, the News arranged with the commercial Applied Research Laboratories of Dayton, N. J., headed by Biologist Thomas Durfee, to do its experimenting. Director Durfee got in a supply of scientifically bred white rats whose pictures duly appeared in the News alongside Murderer Robert Irwin, Spy Johanna Hofmann, the Duchess of Windsor. Following methods suggested by earlier experiments...
...went to 239 waiters including 60 in the Freshman Dining Hall. The new positions as House Athletic Secretaries, created last year, provided 25 upperclassmen with earnings of $4,350. Among its unusual placements the Office supplied the hero and villain for a pictorialized serial in a local tabloid, a man with good eyesight to inspect the life buoys which hang from various bridges in and around Boston, and the Harvard members of a combined Harvard-Radcliffe team which took part in the first trans-Atlantic spelling bee with Oxford. Among the regular summer jobs the largest earnings went to tutor...