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Saturday, February 11, 2017

Lord Copper

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
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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