Word: trash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deliberately, with exactness, the editors of TIME make choice of their words, their phrases. Startled, therefore, was I to find in one and the same category these: 'Trash readers, comic-strip fanatics, crossword puzzlers, gum-chewers. ..." ("The Press," TIME, Dec. 29). I do not read trash. Comic-strips to me are senseless. I do not chew gum. But of crosswords-I do spend considerable time fitting in the interlocking words on occasion. Others, I think, may feel as I do about your classification. Crossword puzzles and indulgence therein have met no end of favor in a variety of circles...
With regard to the public, Mr. Rose differentiates between the intelligent reader and the headline readers of "trash"-"the 800,000 'readers' of the Daily News in New York, in which there is nothing to read...
...Trash readers, comic-strip fanatics, crossword puzzlers, gum-chewers are satisfied by the noises which may be transmitted to them over the ether. But even in their case, and though they delight in listening in on Presidential speeches, football games, ball games, jazzy funnymen, first aid lectures, bed-time stories and advice to mothers, their interest is thus aroused in their newspapers. They delight in reading what they have heard. Many of Mr. Rose's friends told him that radio has made them read the newspaper accounts more eagerly. More critically...
...fact that many of these authors write for both magazines, and that what they write is invariably the same?"high-life" escapades, "low-life" escapades, apartment-house romances, love at first sight ?all manner of Tillie-the-Toiler skits in the popular, fiction-factory formulae, excellent literary trash and "what the public wants...
Silence. Time was when the melodrama factories worked double shift turning out absorbing trash to the public taste. Of late years, the melodrama market has slumped and the mental machineries turned to other products. Max Marcin caught the operators napping with a sound old timer, perfectly played by H. B. Warner and geared so high that even the wicked old critics felt thrills crawling busily about them...