Word: tabloidism
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...Romance, True Experiences, Movie Mirror, Radio Mirror, Photoplay, True Detective Mysteries, Famous Detective Cases and Master Detective, the advertisement was the first occasion on which this wiry-haired, wrinkle-faced little character had made a major splash since Depression, during which he lost his wife through divorce and his tabloid newspaper. Nevertheless, as many of the 8,241,546 people who do patronize Macfadden publications were well aware, Bernarr Macfadden at 68 was going better and stronger than at any time since he stopped peddling a patent muscle-developer and began exploiting his genius for the common touch...
...high-school athlete named J. Edward Wright. When this news was announced by Mrs. Spencer, the Hearstian Evening American gave it an eight-column, front-page streamer headline. Col. William Franklin Knox's Daily News front-paged the story with a two-column picture of the bride. The tabloid Times devoted its entire front page to Mary Belle, followed up inside with strips of pictures, additional copy...
Such cases of "sex change" fascinate not only tabloid editors but also serious students of the tremendous complexity and almost infinite variations of human hermaphroditism. To sober medical men, it does not seem strange that Nature some times blurs sexual development in men & women. Biologists say there is no such thing as absolute sex. Anatomists recognized a consistent parallelism between the genital structures of male & female. Recent research on such female sex hormones as theelin reveals that the corresponding male hormones are chemically almost identical. Normal men generate traces of female hormones, and vice versa. Thus, being male or female...
...view last week was another of those scandals which periodically afford U. S. film followers an intimate glimpse of high & low life in Hollywood. While the cinema colony shamefully hung its tail between its legs, while circulation managers of the tabloid Press howled with delight, Mary Astor and Dr. Franklyn Thorpe battled for the custody of their 4-year-old daughter in a mud-slinging contest in which the purpose of each was to make the other appear grossly immoral...
...exwife. Its revelations, doled out day by day from his attorney's office, were as purple as the ink they were written in. "Why the hell I keep writing things down in this book I don't know," began the first instalment of what the tabloid Press promptly labeled "The Misstep Diary." "It seems to help for some reason. Then, too, Baby Marylyn some day would like to know what sort of a person her mother was and maybe she will be consoled when she makes mistakes and gets into jams to know that mother was a champion...