Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...readers of that gum-chewers' sheetlet, the New York Graphic, are gum-chewers. Some of them snuggle the pink-faced tabloid into Park Avenue homes, there to read it in polite seclusion. They have reason: the Graphic's gossip-purveying, scandal-scooping, staccato-styled Monday column, "Your Broadway and Mine...
...some time the writer of that column has been Walter Winchell, no ordinary scandal-scooper. Famed is he in theatre lobbies, speakeasies, night clubs. From one gossip-centre to another he travels to get column material. Alert, the Winchell ears hear all. Amiable, the Winchell disposition makes friends easily, elicits scandal-scraps. Then, at three and four in the morning, he goes back to his typewriter and two-fingers what he has learned, adding here and there the result of an imaginative mind...
Peculiar was the newspaper treatment of the Graustein-Patton marriage. Here was surely a saga of romance without a trace of scandal. Here was modern Manhattan's version of the Prince and Cinderella-a syncopated setting for an ageless theme. Yet the story was announced (two months after the wedding) in Zit's Weekly, theatrical trade-paper. Later the tabloids carried it. But solid, standard papers-Times, World, Herald Tribune, Sim, Post-ignored the week's-and one of the year's-greatest human interest story...
Possibly tabloid emphasis on sex and scandal has made conservatives timid of love and romance. More likely, however, appeared the theory that city editors neglected the story simply because they were late in discovering it. Had they got the story on the day of the Texas wedding it would have front-paged every paper. But it is not in their occurrence but in their telling that events age, To a man unconscious since Nov. 10, 1918, news of the armistice would be great news. To a public unconscious of the Graustein wedding this latest and best of Cinderella stories remains...
...matter had now become a national scandal with precisely that touch of genius which France relishes. Comoedia published an announcement: WANTED: A VOLUNTEER FOR THE INSTITUT! "Come, come, gentlemen," concluded the article, "who wants to join the Institut? What the devil! It's a worthy movement...