Word: tabloidism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Frankie was charged with battery and freed on $500 bail. He would be tried by a jury May 27. He flew off to Manhattan, where the Council Against Intolerance in America gave him a prize for other efforts. Manhattan's left-winging tabloid PM, on Frankie's side, dignified the brawl with a 1,000-word editorial. (He "must have warmed the hearts of millions," said PM-but conceded that this was probably not the best way to strike a blow at race prejudice.) In the Hearstpapers-which painstakingly reviewed Frankie's association with left-wing groups...
Married. Ellsworth ("Sonny") Wisecarver, 17, tabloid-trumpeted wolf cub, who at 14 ran off with an unmarried mother seven years his senior ("You take Sinatra . . . I'll take Sonny"), ran off again at 16 with another matron of 25 ("an interlude of golden ecstasy"); and Betty Zoe Reber, 17, a plump, Mormon high-school girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in St. George, Utah...
...half years the editors of the tabloid Army Times never put their paper to bed without a pin-up girl in it. Like their "Gripevine" column, the pretty creatures helped build circulation (now 375,000), and hold it when mustered-out readers had to be coaxed over to the veteran's edition. But an irate letter from Bastrop, Tex. momentarily shook the editors' faith...
...months ago, Sari told tabloid readers that she11) had once been doped into "continuous slumber" for six months, and 2) was going to sue Hilton for divorce, $10 million...
...calculating eye on her easygoing husband's affairs. The Rothermeres had paved the way for the change by a complicated bit of high finance. They spent some $3,000,000 to clinch their shaky hold on the Mail by buying out the shares held by London's tabloid Mirror, and trading off their own shares in the Mirror...