10 Story Book, August 1938 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ATabloid Newspaper NE of the characteristics of the () tabloid newspaper is that while tt usually says what it means, it does not always mean just what it says! It has a system of phraseology peculiar to itself. Many of the words one sees m a daily journal really are in the dictionary, but the average news-scribe is a man of broader linguistic views than the editors of dic- tionaries.. Therefore, a person who would read his tabloid newsprint intelligently must familiarize himself with the idioms, some of which have been collected and are given below: YELLOW—According to the tabloids, a jaundiced type of journalism employed by all other newspapers. Glossary MOBSTER—Any person wearing a cap, when arrested on a charge of assault and battery. INTERNATIONAL: DOPE RING Handful of small-time ex-bootleggers of various nationalities arrested for peddling marihuana cigarettes. BANDIT—Person guilty of crime against property for which the penalty is more than ten days in jail. WUZ—Synonymous with “was,” but in- dicates dialect. GANGSTER—Synonymous with “mob- ster See above: BOOTLEGGER—A few years ago, any person guilty of carrying a pint of untaxed liquor. Now “almost” obsolete. Comiclboolkk<s C@