Word: tabloidizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...radio operator and have been copying such broadcasts off and on for the past five years. It is tabloid stuff, selected with apparently no thought of the field it is to reach. A man at sea is merely bored to read the bald statement that "1 dies, 3 injured in crash at Little Rock"; yet when the service is gratis one scarcely can complain. It is my hope, therefore, that TIME and this station can cooperate in furnishing a high-class news broadcast to ships...
...that ever shook a scanty at a tired business man." Other characters are Dixie's devoted greeting card salesman-"a sweet boy, but he's so full of sediments;" her Argentine gaga, passionate Alvarez Romano; her sugar daddy, high-powered banker; her ghost writer on the Evening Tabloid. The jealous Argentine stabs the sugar daddy, the newspapers take Dixie up, the Evening Tab kidnaps her (offering a reward), and Dixie is off to a good start. Show Girl is excellent burlesque. And it makes amusing reading. But enough is enough. In fact, 50 pages is enough...
...True Stories, Timely Topics, Virile Features, the New York Evening pornoGraphic published a 20-year-old legend about an obscure singer, Margerita Sylva. The greatest Carmen of them all, the Graphic called Singer Sylva, but this was not the meat of the story. Like nearly everything else in the tabloid the story had to do with matters of sex. Since Singer Sylva's reputation is comparatively unsmirched, the story's title was "A CARMEN WHO NEVER Played with Love...
This and more is the masthead of the Overland Mail, daily tabloid, born last fortnight on the Gold Coast Limited of the Union Pacific Railroad, somewhere between Chicago and the Pacific Ocean. The idea: to entertain patrons of the train, to tell them yarns about the scenery and the towns through which they pass...
Married. Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, unsuccessful publisher who last fortnight announced plans to pay 3,000 stockholders for losses incurred through his tabloid news ventures (TIME, July 9) ; and Mrs. Mary Weir Logan ; in Reno, one half hour after Mrs. Vanderbilt had obtained a divorce from Waldo Hancock Logan, Chicago broker...