Word: tabloidism
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Back to Manhattan from her first postwar inspection of her villa in Capri came best-dressed Mrs. Harrison Williams, in what the tabloid Daily Mirror called "a pale beige wool dress, with a deeper-than-usual neckline and longer-than-usual skirt." How had she found things? Said she: "A great many things are gone, including a most wonderful wine cellar. Not a bottle remains." But she kept her chin up. "C'est la guerre," said Mrs. Williams...
...soon began to feel as though he were living under a magnifying glass. The tabloid New York Daily News began referring to him as a Love Child. The tabloid Daily Mirror, disregarding facts, made up a raffish story of its own. It suggested that Mrs. Greer had been secretly married to the late George V of England, concluded that Harold Segur was probably the Duke of Windsor's half brother. Segur grew more & more confused...
Maestro Leopold Stokowski and wife Gloria were also attracting attention with their music: the tabloid Daily Mirror breathlessly reported that "neighbors have heard loud quarrels and the noise of thrown dishes...
This week their eight-page, English-language tabloid was eight months old and growing fast. Its founders (who almost lost their shirts and their $36,000 capital in the first 90 days) had 23,000 circulation in Italy, were flying 500 copies a day to Athens, lining up outlets all the way from Switzerland to Egypt. For their plant on the busy Corso Umberto, they had bought (for 7,000,000 lire, or $31,000) a modern rotary press...
Compared to Scripps-Howard's tabloid Daily News, to "Cissie" Patterson's raucous Times-Herald and even to Eugene Meyer's Post, the Evening Star seems to many readers as stodgy as the Congressional Record. It is second only to the Times-Herald in circulation (with a record 215,000) and among the five most adladen papers in the nation...