Word: tabloidizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down with sombre eyes upon a neat rack of buggy-whips. Newspaper men still quarrel. Most of them do so with a certain reticence. Respecting the dignity of their differences, they wage their wars out of sight. But last week the public was astounded to find, in a famed tabloid sheet, a reversion to the vilest of tactics of journalism-a gratuitous insult hurled at an honored newspaper builder, a sickly slur cast at a courageous weekly. Don C. Seitz, long business manager of the New York World, was the victim. The Outlook was the insulted weekly. The perpetrator...
There are various ways of "teaching" art. One way is to provide a student with a large tome in which the pictures of various masters are reproduced in color, with a tabloid criticism appended at the bottom of the page. The students regard the picture, memorize the criticism. Once or twice a week they listen to a lecture by a professor and take notes...
...height of the Argosy's success, Mr. Munsey first fingered the newspaper business by starting a tabloid, the New York Daily Continent. It died quickly and was unceremoniously buried. The day of tabloids was not yet. Ten years later Mr. Munsey?now rich by reason of chain groceries and fortunate buying of U. S. Steel Common besides prosperous publishing?bought the Washington Times, and here began an unsuccessful period of experimentation. As Mr. Munsey expressed his dream...
...steel and stone, of dynamos and blast furnaces. It sets itself to discover the new America that contains great corporations and great trade unions, New York skyscrapers, Chicago stockyards, Pittsburgh steel mills, Florida land-rushes. West Virginia strikes, Herrin massacres, Ku Klux Klans, Legions and Leagues, labor spies, tabloid newspapers, jazz, lynching, sports, mortgaged farms, farm trusts, romantic fiction magazines, movies, bunk morality, bunk religion, bunk politics, imperialistic adventures-the new America that all the rest of the world watches with mingled horror and admiration...
There appeared, too, two departments. "The CRIMSON Playgoer" and "The CRIMSON Bookshelf." Last year special editors were assigned to cover these fields, and the "Bookshelf" which has originally been a column in the paper, became a monthly tabloid supplement.The "Sanctum" at the Crimson Building...