Came across the name
Lord Copper in an opinion piece in
The Wall Street Journal this morning. Never heard of him, found he was a character in the 1938 novel
Scoop:
Lord Copper, the newspaper magnate, has been said to be an amalgam of Lord Northcliffe and Lord Beaverbrook:
a character so fearsome that his obsequious foreign editor, Mr Salter,
can never openly disagree with him, answering "Definitely, Lord Copper"
and 'Up to a point, Lord Copper" in place of "yes" or "no". - Wikipedia
Older son corrects my pronunciation of Evelyn, telling me it is more Evil-in, or prehaps Eve-lyn, as opposed to the woman's name of Ev-el-in.
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