Word: scoopful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SCOOP, but I thought hundreds of other readers would do so and therefore passed it up. During the past few months, however, I have been taking bets on the matter and naturally have won, all based on the remark of Edward VIII as published in the TIME article...
...name which chiefly emerged from the Windsor & Simpson Story-of-the-Year with credit was the name of William Randolph Hearst. There have been only two real Simpson scoops and Mr, Hearst personally scored Scoop No. i when he learned in England from King Edward that His Majesty was not just fooling around but was firm in his resolve to marry (TIME, Nov. 2). Scoop No. 2 is under stood to have been secured for Mr. Hearst by Miss Marion Davies in transatlantic conversation with her friend Mrs. Ernest Simpson. This scoop was the information that, while Edward VIII...
...Scoop No. 3 came last week from news-writing Newbold Noyes, a second cousin by marriage of Mrs. Simpson, a son of sedate President Frank Brett Noyes of the Associated Press, and a part-owner and associate editor of the Washington Star. About a month ago he cabled Cousin Wallis, asking if he could be of service to King Edward and herself. She cabled Cousin Newbold to come on over. He dined in Mrs. Simpson's London house on the night of his arrival with her chaperon Aunt Bessie. Cousin Wallis was spending the weekend in the country with...
...shotgun was no part of cousin Newbold's equipment and in the most positive manner he affirmed over each dispatch which he wrote and syndicated and on landing in the U.S. last week that "both the King and Mrs. Simpson have authorized this series." It was Scoop...
...Only a scoop by the New York Times set newshawks on the track, caused the mislaid letter to be found next...