Word: tabloidizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much so anywhere else, a newspaper reporter who is a go-getter to the extent of going and getting the queen. She (the queen), is full of fun. She likes dancing considerably better than governing, and the heroic copy-hound less than either. Elements involved are tabloid revolutions, aeroplane fights, a New York cabaret, and continuous dancing, with or without provocation. The queen being Mae Murray, that is all very predictable and completely satisfying. BRASS-Philip marries lively Marjorie. Shortly, after the preliminary measure of a divorce, Marjorie attaches herself and affections to one Roy North. Philip finds a loving...
...practical specialists that we utterly forget such minor acquisitions as intellectual power, mental development and "the art of living." Mr. Morrison implies another great truth--the only knowledge really worth anything is that which we acquire by our own efforts. That which is supplied to us gratis in tabloid form will ever be found wanting when we weigh it carefully. In this connection one can hardly refrain from wondering how many undergraduates really become acquainted with the Widener Library during the course of their College career. Apparently very few, judging by the general ignorance of the special collections...