Word: scoopful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...released as soon as the original had reached the White House. Newshawk Suter's eyes popped. The letter announced Mr. Van Devanter's retirement on June 2 (day after the Supreme Court completes its term). As a parting kindness one oldster was giving another oldster a scoop...
Behind the Headlines (RKO). Reporters who had to compete with Newsflash Broadcaster Eddy Haines (Lee Tracy) agreed that if they threw him out of the window he would scoop them by broadcasting the news all the way to the ground. Mary Bradley (Diana Gibson), the Star's sobsister, had been engaged to him until he sent her to pick out a ring while he beat her to the story of a round-the-world flight. In her opinion he was such an "utter cockroach" that she hired thugs to bar him from a dance hall fire, news of which...
...Ball had not forgotten Newshawk Hadley, gave him a scoop which was not even shared with the Muncie Star and the Indianapolis Star, in both of which the Ball family has interests. The story: "George A. Ball . . . today confirmed the creation of the George & Frances Ball Foundation, charitable trust organized un der the laws of Indiana, and his donation to that foundation of his entire common stockholdings in Midamerica Corp." Directors were Mr. Ball, three members of his family and President Lemuel Arthur Pittenger of Ball State Teachers College. Kept by Mr. Ball were 18,733 of 20,000 shares...
...life, a love which she could not master!" Although Dictator Mussolini and Dictator Hitler have just linked their countries in a close pact, official German radio stations were soon broadcasting the substance of French reports which were printed ten days before the shooting by Paris' often amazingly forehanded scoop-weekly Aux Ecoutes ("The Eavesdropper...
...Nazi broadcast jazzed up this able Aux Ecoutes scoop to tell Germans that not $790 but $75,000 was given Mile de Fontages-a sum which no statesman in thrifty Europe would ever have to part with to a journalistic strumpet. At latest reports wounded Count de Chambrun, ever the gallant diplomat of the old school, was refusing to have the woman who winged him prosecuted. Said the Countess de Chambrun, former Princess Murat: "This journalist often saw my husband when she was in Rome writing news stories. She certainly was suffering from hallucinations when she suddenly appeared...