Word: scooper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Politically, they represent all shades from "extreme reactionary" (Fulton Lewis Jr.) to "liberal" (Frank Kingdon). "Changeable" in ideology: Scooper Drew Pearson. "Old-fashioned conservative" but "well qualified as an analyst": H. V. Kaltenborn...
...start Janie (Joyce Reynolds) likes to doubletalk and to schmooze with drab civilian "Scooper" Nolan (Dick Erdman) at blanket parties. Then the Army arrives, to use Janie's home town as a base for maneuvers, and Janie puts away childish things. Thereafter Private Dick Lawrence (Robert Hutton) maneuvers exclusively with...
...youth's pitfalls, but while his wife (Ann Harding) and his best friend (Robert Benchley) demur, the mote in his own eye grows to beam size. Janie, one night when the family is out, arranges to vibrate with Pvt. Lawrence in the privacy of her home. Thanks to Scooper, who is mad with jealousy, and to her little sister Elspeth (Clare Foley) who combines the less endearing features of a stool pigeon, a blackmailer and the Marquis de Sade, they get no privacy. By the time Janie's parents get home, along with the town police...
...down to the Indoor Athletic Building and scoop the labor men by a score of 28 to 20. Starring for the Union men were Ray Frisch another mad hatter, and "Two Way Stretch" Pfeffer from the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union. The outstanding players for the journalists were "Scooper" Ethridge, former college star, and "Copy...
...Second scooper was Associated Pressman Henry C. Cassidy. Late in September, at the insistence of his Manhattan bosses, he wrote to Stalin asking for an interview, expected no results. But several days later he was roused by a midnight call from the Foreign Office. Cassidy rushed over, was amazed to find a letter from Stalin: "Dear Gospodin (Mr.) Cassidy: Owing to the pressure of work ... I shall confine myself to a brief written answer. . . ." This was the famed letter in which Stalin called for Second Front...