Pulp Fiction, 1938 · page 13 of 64
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This is a glossary page titled "A Tabloid Newspaper Glossary" by Kenneth P. Wood. The illustration shows scattered newspapers and tabloid pages in a sketched style. The text defines slang terms and jargon specific to tabloid journalism and crime reporting, including "Yellow" (sensationalist journalism), "Mobster" (person wearing a cap arrested for assault and battery), "International Dope Ring" (drug smugglers), "Bandit" (property crime perpetrator), "Wuz" (dialectal for "was"), "Gangster" (synonym for mobster), and "Bootlegger" (once common, now nearly obsolete for illegal liquor carriers). The glossary appears designed to help readers understand tabloid newspaper terminology and criminal slang from the era.
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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@