Word: chequebook
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...EXCLUSIVE followed EXCLUSIVE, Britain's more serious dailies were beginning to find the affair distasteful. The Times fretted that if the orgy of publicity continued, it might be traumatic for the child. The Guardian denounced "chequebook journalism" and thrashed Oldham health officials for allowing the Mail to control news from the hospital. Embarrassed, regional health authorities ordered that any bulletins be given to all comers. Sniffed Guardian Editor Peter Preston: "The research, the doctors, the hospital-all were funded by the taxpayer. It's as if the Prime Minister said, 'For 350 quid I'll give...
...seems that Mr. Sutherland holds an option on Lallers, famed dressmaking establishment; that Lady Furber has had dealings with Lallers in a manner to make her husband acutely covetous of the option; that Mr. Sutherland has been abducted in the hope he will listen to his host's chequebook; that Miss Perkins is an innocent victim of circumstances. A garbled press dispatch is printed in London and meets the eye of Lady Furber. Lady Furber, being a woman of some decision, reaches Monte Carlo almost immediately, boards the yacht, and rings down the curtain a very few pages later...
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