Word: tabloidizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon two child's nurses push perambulators upon the scene. "Three-fawty-six. Yeah. This heah's the place." Fascinated they stand, gibbering, comparing the scene with a tabloid's composograph of the murder...
...declining to answer on behalf of the college the ridiculous Queries of a current questionnaire on "collegiatism" Dean Hanford has correctly foreseen the general attitude of the student body toward a national survey of such an unprofitable and tabloid nature. The majority of Harvard men can safely be exempted from any interest in the classification and further glorification of a phase of American college life which has flourished in direct proportion to the undesirable amount of publicity it has received from press and film...
...time I think of convents, it renews my faith in human laughter. FATHER WILL WHALEN Old Jesuit Mission, Orrtanna, Pa. Father Whalen recently wrote a short story about a mediocre actress, popular in small towns. It was labeled "Twinkle, Little Star" and appeared in the New York Daily News (tabloid).-ED. Marching Yorkers
...wrote the above Kipling (with emendations) for his nickel Liberty. Then he boarded his $75.000 Sikorsky amphibian, Liberty, flew to the Caribbean (TIME, Dec. 10). With him flew a vivacious married daughter, Alicia Patterson Simpson,* 22, who a while ago preferred reporting for her father's Manhattan tabloid (Daily News) to dancing with Chicago's eligibles. He also took Lieut. Frederick Becker as pilot, Engineer Sutter, Radioman Roe and Newsman Floyd Gibbons. In Liberty's red leather and lacquer cabin Publisher Patterson studied maps and winds while Daughter Alicia snuggled on a chaise-longue reading. . . . They stayed...
...Cornelius Jr. is scarcely famed in Paris-having chosen California as his place to toil and go bankrupt publishing tabloid news organs. Therefore announcements that General Cornelius Vanderbilt had made available $2,257,000 to pay the California tabloid creditors (TIME, Dec. 31), were of relatively slight interest to such typical Paris tycoons as M. Henri Letellier, publisher of the world's third largest newspaper, Le Journal. It was M. Letellier who employed, as his confidential and executive secretary until recently, the cherubic Erskine Gwynne. But tout Paris took keen interest, last week, at reports that Nephew Gwynne...