Word: tabloidizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grist for the tabloid mills, pun material for Will Rogers stuff out of which we-view-with-alarm editorials are written--such is the effect of William Hale Thompson's election as mayor of Chicago on the extra-Chicago portion of the nation. Meanwhile Chicago politicians scratch their heads and reformers settle down to a prosperous season. The city knows what to expect; two terms of Mayor Thompson have convinced it that all is not sweet and clean by the shorts of Lake Michigan. Nevertheless it is willing to have another...
...Newark a Hip Sing yellow-man made the error of invading a Chinese quarter settled almost entirely by On Leong Tongmen. There were 26 bullets in his body when the police found it, like a blood-stained yellow tabloid, in the gutter...
There is a minimum of romance as seen from the tabloid point of view, in the three "R's" and yet they are extremely necessary in pedagogics. Fundamentals rarely are valued at their true worth and such a generalization applies well to the basic ideals of teaching. The little red schoolhouse has joined the immortals but its work is being continued in elaborately constructed buildings under the supervision of teachers who are better trained and fitted for their positions than ever in the history of the nation. In this case, at any rate, expansion has not resulted in degradation...
...Chicago?Tabloid slush drools over a murderess. Burly satire...
...plugged the doubly unfortunate Goldberg in the forbidden parts. For this treacherous, unwarranted homicide, Director-General Fenmore plugs Rocky. Two young innocents become entangled in the brutal but inept police proceedings. To save them, Fenmore tells all, proving he has a heart of gold and a sense for tabloid headlines. It is the sort of play that sends small boys and big boys out of the theatre hoping some day to work up to the nobility of banditry. It is, unhappily, uncensorable...