headliney

comparative headlinier · superlative headliniest

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of headliny.

   Volume Two [book by Katherine Mayo], although the chapter headings are headliney and calculated to attract, consists almost entirely in individual reports and in statistical notes.

   1931 May 13, F. L. R., “The Week’s Reading”, in Francis Rufus Bellamy, editor, Outlook and Independent, volume 158, number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Outlook Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 57, column 2

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   On the way home she would buy something to heat on her oil stove and perhaps an orange or two bananas. Also an evening newspaper, the headliniest, pinkest of the lot. And every evening at 7:30 would come the postprandial enjoyment of literature for twenty minutes, to-wit: the reading of the headliney, pinky newspaper, from trials and divorce suits to beauty advice and comics, inclusive. Never having had her name in any paper, and therefore never having had it misspelled, she had no cause not to have confidence in the printed word. All she read she believed and she was happy in her faith.

   1907 October 20, Franklin P[ierce] Adams, “Miss Marguerite Cassidy’s Encyclopedia: The Laundry Girl’s Thirst for Knowledge and What Came of It”, in Illustrated Sunday Magazine of the Buffalo Illustrated Times […], Buffalo, N.Y., →OCLC, page 9, column 1

   ‘[Streets of] Paris’ is in a tough spot. With a terrific reputation developed from last year it must surpass itself. It’s got to come through with something really big and headliney.

   1934 June 5, “World’s Greatest Carny: Chi Expo Opens Only 75% Ready […]”, in Variety, volume 114, number 12, New York, N.Y.: Variety, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63, column 2

   Next day to Mote Mount for Middlesex Mammoth Meeting. (Forgive me for going all headliney!) One hundred and thirty players of 14 handicap and under, starting-times from 8.20 a.m., a winning gross score one under par, 75 from Mrs. John Beck, with 77 from Miss Daniell, was all very good.

   1935 October 30, Eleanor E. Helme, “Women’s Golf: Worplesdon—And After”, in The Bystander, volume CXXVIII, number 1663, London: Illustrated Newspapers, →OCLC, page vi, column 1