Word: scoopful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Pole, Comptroller of the Currency, was recently in San Francisco. Up and down Montgomery Street brokers and bankers guessed that his visit was to bring a halt to the running fight which Amadeo Peter ("A. P."; Giannini was waging on Elisha Walker. Financial re- porters sensed a big scoop when Mr. Pole summoned them to his office in the Federal Reserve Building. But when they arrived he gravely told newshawks he was sorry but he had nothing to say after...
...main theme of his talk is the author's literary career, its rewards & punishments. On this subject he spares no sensibilities, not even his own, minces no words, without malice prepense. He does not hesitate to call a spade a dung-scoop or Pegasus a stallion. Among those writers who can damn the world's illusion with feint praise, Cabell holds, deserves to hold, high place...
News candidates will spend the first week in becoming acquainted with various University sources, and with "newspaper style." Shortly after, when the "Scoop book" is opened, they will be given greater opportunities for displaying initiative and ability in gleaning items of interest from among the chaff of commonplace material. Ability to wield a pen with some fluency is essential, but previous journalistic experience is not necessary...
...York, Editor Edwin Balmer of Red Book magazine beamed all over his pink and pleasant face. He was about to release a news scoop for which a dozen publishers would have given the bronze elephants off their desks: the first authorized story of ex-King Alfonso's reign & exile...
...least one good reason the Post-Dispatch did not try to press its advantage on the story to the point of sewing it up like the Kelley story, as a P-D scoop. The reason: Reporter Rogers found Dr. Kelley with such dispatch and apparent ease that a strong suspicion was voiced by opposition papers that he had withheld important information from the police, who never caught the kidnapers. In the Berg case it was understood Reporter Rogers' editors instructed him "not to get mixed up in it." In the Post-Dispatch's report of Rogers' visit to Lawyer Richards...