![]() ![]() Middle-class readers who opened their copies of the Daily Mail on July 26, 1924, found a yet more enticing phenomenon: the discovery, alive and kicking on the streets of central London, of nothing less than a brand-new youth cult. ![]() The defrocked vicar, the nightclub raid, the genteel murder, the man swallowed whole by the whale and regurgitated onto the sand bleached white by its gastric juices-all these were served up by mass-market newspapers as indiscriminately as a packet of hundreds and thousands. ![]() The 1920s were the great age of the press sensation. DOUGLAS GOLDRING,The Nineteen-Twenties (1945) Human nature being what it is, trivial and surface manifestations of revolutionary exuberance will always have a fascination for the average reader. ![]()
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