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Word: tabloidizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...singer . . . indistinct pronunciation.' My husband, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who usually is on hand to play my piano parts, was not present. Boris, King of Rumania: "The American press made much of a rumor that I plan to come to America in search of a wealthy wife. The Daily News, tabloid newspaper of Manhattan, was bold enough to nominate various candidates for my hand. First, Miss Millicent Rogers, who ' despite her industrial wealth does not look like an American. . . . When she appeared at the Southampton Street Fair ... in a hindu costume. . . .' Secondly, Miss Abby Rockefeller, 'pretty granddaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Imaginary Interviews: Nov. 12, 1923 | 11/12/1923 | See Source »

Reason for the sale of the News is found in its tabloid style, small size, picture service, candidly low appeal. Its photographers are either omnipresent or winged. Last week a gangster and a paymaster's guard fought a duel fatal to both; the News' camera reached the scene before the coroner, obtaining a picture of the two bodies as they lay in the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Circulation Figures | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

...name of his paper will be the Illustrated Daily News. From its title it is evidently to be conducted on lines similar to those of the New York Daily News, a tabloid sheet which has picked up half a million circulation during the past four years among the gum-chewing population of Manhattan. Mr. Vanderbilt's journalistic efforts ever since his connection with Mr. Hearst have been aimed largely at this class of reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanderbilt, Journalist | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

...enterprises during the war, and finally went to prison for peculations of their funds. But John Bull goes on with all the devices of American yellow journalism and a few master touches of its own. The contents of its current number includes: " The World, the Flesh and the Devil" (tabloid editorials), "Who Shields the Wicked Woman," " Houses Exchanged for Girls," " Candid Communications " (open letters from John Bull to his friends and enemies), "Human Documents" (an enlarged and unexpurgated version of Beatrice Fairfax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Bull | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

...profession" who stumbles upon one or more of these stumbles at once into a new and diverting world. A world where the verb " to wow" means unqualified success, where " sisters " are seldom if ever related, where a " tab " is not what old Mr. Webster said it was, but a tabloid musical show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Sisters Wow in Tab | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

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