Word: vanderbiltian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pursuant description made it clear that the new paper, the name of which was not vouchsafed, would be much like its Vanderbiltian predecessors. These, in their day, were modeled after the famed gum-chewers' sheetlets* of Manhattan. Compactly laid out, swathed in photographs, crowded with headlines, cluttered with "features", tabloid newspapers compress the national and international news the day with the local and incidental, expanding the latter into longer stories whenever it possesses sufficiently sensational details. The Vanderbilt papers, however, do not exploit crime am scandal as do their Manhattan prototypes. Their two most visible bents arc educational (stories...
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