He was staring at the headline at the top right-hand corner of the front page.
The strength of a headline lies in its positiveness.
I will conclude with what to me is an example of the art of headline writing carried almost to perfection.
And about that time a Chicago newspaper came out, carrying a big headline story, complete with drawings, about our adventures in taming the frontier.
In the next issue there appeared a black-headline article.
Haunted houses have proved an insuperable stumbling-block to those wiseacres who no sooner insist that superstition has died out than the familiar headline in the daily paper, "A haunted house," stares them full in the face.
When radars at the Washington National Airport and at Andrews AFB, both close to the nation's capital, picked up UFO's, the sightings beat the Democratic National Convention out of headline space.
For her there was nothing cryptic in a headline such as "Rudie Slams One Home"; and Do pfd followed by dotted lines and vulgar fractions were to her as easily translated as the Daily Hint From Paris.
She poured the coffee, trying to keep her gaze away from the tantalizing tail-end of the headline at whose first half she could only guess.
Probably the snappiest streamer headline the News has had for many a day.
When he gave up his quest at noon Saturday and returned to his hotel, Dundee bought at the newsstand a paper whose headline convinced him that Sergeant Turner was, at that moment, even more discouraged than himself.
Biff stepped to his father's side and read the eight-column headline over his shoulder.
Scarcely a week passes that the newspaper reader does not see the headline "Mysterious disappearance.
Just wait a second," Bruce said to his caller; and turning back to his desk he hastily scribbled a headline over an item about a case of fever down in River Court.
But Katherine had already seen the headline that ran across the top of the Express.
Fifteen minutes later the story was finished, and Katherine leaned back in her chair with aching arms, while Billy wrote a lurid headline across the entire front page.
The hand-painted baby-blue pencil for the best headline last week goes to the artist on the San Francisco Chronicle for the following: "Prehistoric Skulls Found Digging Wells.
The drawn-work decanter, prize for the best headline for the Nutt vs.
If there wasn't a smaller rock standing right in front of it and making sort of a harbor, no one could ever land there, for most of its headline is bold, a hundred, two hundred feet high.
Towering a hundred or more feet above the sea, a bold headline loomed before him.
A headline of victory, a mention of the army, the army they love, and they boast again.
The headline of one reads: "Britain pledges aid to Berlin against French aggression; France openly backs Poles.
The headline of the second is "Mrs. Stillman's Other Love.
She went on, passing from one headline to the next of the evening paper which they took daily turns in buying.
Curiously enough, on the front page the headline of a certain advertisement showed plainly.
The headline was done in large black letters, advising all who might have read that this was a copy of the magazine known as Hearts Aflame.
But Mr. Punch, with many others, has no sympathy to spare for the sorrows of the headline artist deprived for the time being of his chief opportunity of scaremongering.
It was banner, right across the top; the Times' headline writer was practically orgasmic.
Or maybe Punch Sulzberger had just been swallowed whole by Rupert Murdoch, because I hadn't seen a headline that arresting since the Posts immortal "Coed Jogger Slain in Bed.
Freddy studied the headline and the first paragraph silently, then whistled lightly and lowered the paper.
Little did she think that when a quarter of an hour later Hilary rose and strolled slowly away, it was to seek a retired corner, and under that startling headline to make an extensive entry in the note-book.
The early close had left them ahead of time, and two were copying out their shorthand while the third was engaged on a pithy paragraph or two under the headline of "Stormy Proceedings--A Professor Ejected.
On Saturday the headline was "Even Berlin Admits Offensive Checked," and for the first time in that terrible week the Ingleside folk dared to draw a long breath.
The news came at night by 'phone but Susan wouldn't believe it until she saw the Enterprise headline the next day.
On Wednesday the headline was "British and French Check Germans"; but still the retreat went on.
At any Tate there was a headline "Opposition Whip calls on Savelli.
Janet stared at the headline with unbelieving eyes.
And when I opened my paper next morning, I more than half expected to be greeted with a black headline announcing the looting of the strong-room of La Bretagne.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "headline" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
