Word: screamer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day the New Mexican carried a screamer: "YELLOW . . . Rampageous Wild Ass of Missouri Brays When Called." It was real, old time, Southwestern politics-but it was nothing compared to the heckling Candidate Reed received from a wider press as the result of later speeches...
...Manhattan has its own trade paper, the Taxi Weekly. At almost any corner you may occasionally see drivers who are not "cruising, cruising," and have been lucky enough to find parking space, poring over the news of their profession. Last week, for example, idle* eyes lit up at the screamer headline "HIGHER CAB RATE PLANNED...
...headlines: "PEACHES'S SHAME STORY IN FULL," "RAH, DADDY! HAIL, PEACHES!" There were semi-nude pictures of one Marion Dockrell, "female Oom," cult leader admired by Mr. Browning. Inane attention was paid to Mr. Browning's rubber eggs, baby dolls, clay puppies, infantile endearments, trick spoons. New screamer: "DADDY TO BECOME A MONK"-and a picture of the lecher in his office, the walls of which were entirely covered with pictures of females, ranging from small children to fully developed women. Even Mr. Browning, who took evident pleasure in the court rehearsal of his unnatural acts, finally pretended...
...Pope of Rome, whom he regards as anti-Christ, but his alliance with the Bishop in the Heaton case was made necessary by a demand for more liberal lambs (or goats) to cast on the altar of his Searchlight. Out came the Searchlight (100,000 circulation) with screamer headline: HEATON, MODERNIST, CORNERED AND EXPOSED. The Bishop chuckled with glee. Frank Norris had given Heaton not more than six months to live in Texas?and Two-gun Norris gets...
Readers of this conservative sheet were doubtless surprised to be confronted this morning with a regular sensational news-story. These little irregularities are always a temptation for the would-be humorist, and the editors were tempted to use a red-ink screamer headline, with three-column photographs of the culprits. But the present case in by no means a matter for jest. The backwash of a world-wide crime wave has reached our peaceful community, and the list of victims is growing daily. Reports of petty and larger thefts come in steadily; swindling is not uncommon; suspicious characters are frequently...