Word: scoopful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Publicity Office yesterday afternoon denied with its usual alacrity the announcement appearing in a Boston morning newspaper to the effect that President Lowell would resign in 1932. It was said there that no one knew anything of it and that the supposed scoop on the part of the paper was a complete surprise...
Another current suspicion was that Brothers, with no Chicago record as a gangster, was being "framed" by the Chicago Tribune as a means of winding up the whole foul Lingle mystery. The announcement of Brothers' capture, carefully timed for a Tribune scoop on the details, coincided with the first meeting of a special Grand Jury investigating Chicago crime and police. Offsetting the "frame-up" theory was the fact that nine unnamed witnesses of the murder had "positively identified" Brothers as the "big wavy-haired man with a glint in his blue eye" who had shot Lingle...
...disappearance. Possibly through his own friendship-or that of his managing editor, Frank W. Taylor-with the Busch family, Reporter Brundidge learned that the name of Pearl Abernathy, a local Negro real estate dealer, had been mentioned in the Busch household. Next day the Star blazed out its first scoop: "Negro Real Estate Man Exposes Own Son [Charles] As Abductor." Also it printed nearly a full front page of pictures of the room where the boy had been held. Next day Reporter Brundidge was following a hot tip that led to a furnished room hideaway in Kansas City. Two days...
...News Service announced their lists, agreed unanimously on only three: Robert Tyre Jones's four-fold golf victories. The Columbus, Ohio, prison fire. The crash of the R-101. The finding of the bodies of Arctic Explorer Andree and his companions, which developed into something of a Hearst scoop (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.), headed the list of Hearst's I. N. S. But A. P.'s honest Cooper also placed it at the top, risking the inference that the A. P. was beaten on the biggest story of the year. A year ago the birth...
...week trudged Farmer Perry, a spare, spectacled figure in grey cap and overcoat, with a bulky bundle under his arm. He was looking for someone to try his latest invention-"a resistance eliminator, or anti-drag fan." Inventor Perry showed it: a 12-in. steel disc equipped with four scoop-like blades to be affixed to the spinner (hub) of an airplane propeller. "It makes a partial vacuum in front of the propeller," he explained. "It bores through the air. I got the idea five years ago from a posthole borer on my farm." Most pilots snickered, but good-natured...