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Scoop (novel)

Index Scoop (novel)

Scoop is a 1938 novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh. [1]

59 relations: A Handful of Dust, A. J. P. Taylor, Addis Ababa, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Antonin Besse, BBC Radio 4, Ben Hecht, Benito Mussolini, Bill Deedes, Black Mischief, Blackshirts, C. R. M. F. Cruttwell, Caliban, Chapman & Hall, Charles MacArthur, Chicago Daily News, Christopher Hitchens, Correspondent, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Denholm Elliott, Ethiopia, Evelyn Waugh, Fen, Fictional country, Fleet Street, Gavin Millar, Haile Selassie, Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, Harry Worth, John Gunther, Lady Diana Cooper, Latin, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Michael Maloney, Modern Library, Modern Library 100 Best Novels, Mores, Motif (narrative), Mrs. Stitch, News media, Penguin Classics, Peter Stothard, Purple prose, Put Out More Flags, Scoop (1987 film), Scoop (news), Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Spoonerism, The Daily Beast, ..., The Daily Telegraph, The Front Page, The Observer, Tina Brown, Vole, Vole (magazine), William Beach Thomas, William Boot, William Boyd (writer). Expand index (9 more) »

A Handful of Dust

A Handful of Dust is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh.

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A. J. P. Taylor

Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was an English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy.

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Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa (አዲስ አበባ,, "new flower"; or Addis Abeba (the spelling used by the official Ethiopian Mapping Authority); Finfinne "natural spring") is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia.

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Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (15 July 1865 – 14 August 1922) was a British newspaper and publishing magnate.

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Antonin Besse

Sir Antonin Besse (1877-1951) was a French-born businessman based in Aden, where he spent most of his adult life.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist.

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Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF).

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Bill Deedes

William Francis Deedes, Baron Deedes, (1 June 1913 – 17 August 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician, army officer and journalist; he was the first person in Britain to have been both a member of the Cabinet and the editor of a major daily newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.

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Black Mischief

Black Mischief was Evelyn Waugh's third novel, published in 1932.

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Blackshirts

The Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale (MVSN, "Voluntary Militia for National Security"), commonly called the Blackshirts (Camicie Nere, CCNN, singular: Camicia Nera) or squadristi (singular: squadrista), was originally the paramilitary wing of the National Fascist Party and, after 1923, an all-volunteer militia of the Kingdom of Italy.

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C. R. M. F. Cruttwell

Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser Cruttwell (23 May 1887 – 14 March 1941) was a British historian and academic who served as dean and later principal of Hertford College, Oxford.

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Caliban

Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

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Chapman & Hall

Chapman & Hall was a British publishing house in London, founded in the first half of the 19th century by Edward Chapman and William Hall.

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Charles MacArthur

Charles Gordon MacArthur (November 5, 1895 – April 21, 1956) was an American playwright, screenwriter and 1935 winner of the Academy Award for Best Story.

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Chicago Daily News

The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper in the midwestern United States, published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago,.

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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an Anglo-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic, and journalist.

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Correspondent

A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for magazines, or more speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location.

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Daily Express

The Daily Express is a daily national middle market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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Denholm Elliott

Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE (31 May 1922 – 6 October 1992) was an English actor, with more than 120 film and television credits.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ, yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk), is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

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Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St.

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Fen

A fen is one of the main types of wetland, the others being grassy marshes, forested swamps, and peaty bogs.

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Fictional country

A fictional country is a country that is made up for fictional stories, and does not exist in real life, or one that people believe in without proof.

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Fleet Street

Fleet Street is a major street in the City of London.

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Gavin Millar

Gavin Millar (born 11 January 1938 in Clydebank, Scotland) is a Scottish film director, critic and television presenter.

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Haile Selassie

Haile Selassie I (ቀዳማዊ ኃይለ ሥላሴ, qädamawi haylä səllasé,;, born Ras Tafari Makonnen, was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and emperor from 1930 to 1974.

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Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere

Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, (26 April 1868 – 26 November 1940) was a leading British newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers Ltd.

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Harry Worth

Harry Bourlon Illingsworth (20 November 1917 – 20 July 1989), professionally known as Harry Worth, was an English comedy actor, comedian and ventriloquist.

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John Gunther

John Gunther (August 30, 1901 – May 29, 1970) was an American journalist and author.

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Lady Diana Cooper

Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Cooper, Viscountess Norwich (née Lady Diana Manners; 29 August 1892 – 16 June 1986) was a famously glamorous social figure in London and Paris.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook

William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC, ONB (25 May 1879 – 9 June 1964) was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century.

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Michael Maloney

Michael Maloney (born 19 June 1957) is an English actor.

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Modern Library

The Modern Library is an American publishing company.

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Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Modern Library's 100 Best Novels is a list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the Modern Library, an American publishing company owned by Random House.

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Mores

Mores (sometimes; from Latin mōrēs,, plural form of singular mōs, meaning "manner", "custom", "usage", "habit") was introduced from English into American English by William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), an early U.S. sociologist, to refer to social norms that are widely observed and are considered to have greater moral significance than others.

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Motif (narrative)

In narrative, a motif is any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story.

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Mrs. Stitch

Mrs.

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News media

The news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.

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Penguin Classics

Penguin Classics is an imprint published by Penguin Books, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House.

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Peter Stothard

Sir Peter Stothard (born 28 February 1951) is a British author, journalist and critic.

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Purple prose

In literary criticism, purple prose is prose text that is so extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw excessive attention to itself.

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Put Out More Flags

Put Out More Flags, the sixth novel by Evelyn Waugh, was first published by Chapman and Hall in 1942.

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Scoop (1987 film)

Scoop is a 1987 television film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh.

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Scoop (news)

In journalism, a scoop or exclusive is an item of news reported by one journalist or news organization before others, and of exceptional originality, importance, surprise, excitement, or secrecy.

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Second Italo-Ethiopian War

The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a colonial war from 3 October 1935 until 1939, despite the Italian claim to have defeated Ethiopia by 5 May 1936, the date of the capture of Addis Ababa.

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Spoonerism

A spoonerism is an error in speech in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis) between two words in a phrase.

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The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast is an American news and opinion website focused on politics and pop culture.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Front Page

The Front Page is a hit Broadway comedy about tabloid newspaper reporters on the police beat, written by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur which was first produced in 1928.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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Tina Brown

Tina Brown CBE (born Christina Hambley Brown; 21 November 1953), is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles, a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Vole

A vole is a small rodent.

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Vole (magazine)

Vole was a British environmentalist magazine published between 1977 and 1980.

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William Beach Thomas

Sir William Beach Thomas, (22 May 186812 May 1957) was a British author and journalist known for his work as a war correspondent and his writings about nature and country life.

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William Boot

William Boot is a fictional journalist who is the protagonist in the 1938 Evelyn Waugh comic novel Scoop.

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William Boyd (writer)

William Boyd (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoop_(novel)

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