Word: sheetlet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curiosity existed also because of the ghastly disposition of the bodies, in the dismal field, under the spectre tree. Curiosity was awake because of the time that had elapsed since the murder-four years. Finally, curiosity was awake because the newspapers had been stampeded by a grimy little sheetlet bleating, "Awake, awake...
Last week, Bernarr ("Body-Love") Macfadden celebrated the second anniversary of his Evening Graphic, Manhattan's most pornographic sheetlet, with "a frank talk" to his readers. He had previously circulated among his readers a questionnaire. Their response had pleased him. Said he in the full-page advertisement...
...life, liberty and happiness may or may not be seen as secured to the greatest number. But there is one privilege, always reserved for the tyrannous overlords of previous civilizations, which modern Democracy unquestionably confers upon the masses. It is the privilege of Decadence. Last week the Hearstian tabloid sheetlet, the New York Daily Mirror, outdid even its pandering tabloid rivals, the Daily News and Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's Graphic, in the nice art of tickling the palate of Demos. A week before, a hosiery company had conducted an ankle contest among chorus girls, and the Mirror...
...Georgia, Cooper of Ohio, Barkley of Kentucky, Lowry of Mississippi, Senator Jones of Washington, Senator Willis of Ohio. Mr. Wheeler was excused then to be called back later. What had already occurred, however, though not sensational, was enough to arouse a storm. The New York Daily News, gumchewers' sheetlet exclaimed (of Wheeler's League): ". . . This incubus on American liberty, this tumor of religion perverted to bigotry and tyranny, must be cut out of the body politic." In Congress Senator Willis exclaimed: "I am not now and never have been on the payroll of the Anti-Saloon League...
...their convention last week. No sooner said than done. Almost simultaneously Publisher William J. Conners Jr. of Buffalo announced that he had effected the demise of the tabloid Buffalo Star and Enquirer. But Publisher Conners was not actuated purely by disapproval of tabloid technic. He had lumped the sheetlet in with his other holdings, the lately-merged Courier and Express (TIME, June 21). Four months ago Buffalo had six daily papers and Publisher Conners three competitors in the morning field. Now Buffalo has three daily papers,-two of them evening. Publisher Conners is autocrat of the Buffalo breakfast table...