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Northcliffe

[ nawrth-klif ]

Northcliffe

/ ˈnɔːθklɪf /

noun

  1. Northcliffe, Viscount18651922MBritishWRITING: newspaper proprietor Viscount. title of Alfred Charles William Harmsworth. 1865–1922, British newspaper proprietor. With his brother, 1st Viscount Rothermere, he built up a vast chain of newspapers. He founded the Daily Mail (1896), the Daily Mirror (1903), and acquired The Times (1908)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Miss Northcliffe had plainly shown her preference for him, and he was in love with her.

Sent for Northcliffe and told him that unless my articles are treated with more respect I cannot go on and the War will be lost.

I regard Lord Northcliffe less as an entity than as a symptom.

A note is now sometimes heard here in undertone (Northcliffe strikes it)—that they don't want the Americans in the war.

One day Northcliffe sent the military expert of the Times (which he owns) to France to investigate conditions.

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