Word: sheetlet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nothing to say had Editor Weitzenkorn last week as post mortem over his dead editorial hopes. The tone of Publisher Macfadden's sheetlet had not been perceptibly raised. The Graphic was still the pornoGraphic...
...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...
...editor and critic, effective at once. Mr. Sobol will also conduct the column known as 'Your Broadway and Mine.' " Discouraged, they turned to the Times, wherein appeared an advertisement announcing that starting Monday, June 10, Walter Winchell will conduct a column for a rival gum-chewers' sheetlet-the New York Daily Mirror. Many a Winchell reader does not believe all that he reads. Sometimes the Winchell prophecies are right; sometimes they are wrong. But Winchell worshippers have enlarged their vocabularies, learned many a word they never had heard before. Some Winchell Words are: "dotter"-daughter "moom pitcher...
Gossiper Winchell admits his salary is $500 a week and 50% of syndicate receipts. He says he will continue with the Winchell Words, the Winchell gossip every Monday, which cause many to believe that Park Avenue sheetlet-snugglers will turn to the Mirror...
...pages of The Club-Fellow. Senator Joe Robinson had, it was true, a bronchial cold which kept him from his seat for five days. Senator Johnson, too, was briefly indisposed. But both were quite unmumped. Persons with respect for Senators viewed the gossip-swollen Club-Fellow with alarm. The sheetlet's irresponsibility was further revealed by its evident confusion of the Senate's two Robinsons. Still talking about "Senator Joe Robinson" The Club-Fellow said: "At any rate they [mumps] have kept Robinson quiet for a while about the oil scandals. Perhaps some of the Democrats are glad...