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- noun British newspaper publisher (1865-1922)
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Examples
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Yes, I was what they called a Harmsworth professor.
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Harmsworth is known as "Ha'penny-rag," which, I think, is extremely rude.
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The corporal turned down his page of 'Harmsworth's Magazine,' laid it on the parapet, and dived under the tarpaulin.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens
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The only thing 'gold-plated' about British pensions is the gold-plated BS that's being spread about them by self-serving but hardly self-made billionaire heirs like ... well, like "Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere."
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Britain's Massive Anti-Austerity Strike: Could It Happen Here? RJ 2011
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But then, if they did anything else they would risk incurring the displeasure of Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Britain's Massive Anti-Austerity Strike: Could It Happen Here? RJ 2011
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A hundred years on, the heirs of Alfred Harmsworth are sticking it to the Yanks – boasting about "reinventing popular journalism for the digital era".
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The Daily Mail is owned by a gentleman named "Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere," whose net worth exceeds one billion US dollars.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Britain's Massive Anti-Austerity Strike: Could It Happen Here? RJ 2011
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The only thing 'gold-plated' about British pensions is the gold-plated BS that's being spread about them by self-serving but hardly self-made billionaire heirs like ... well, like "Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere."
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Britain's Massive Anti-Austerity Strike: Could It Happen Here? RJ 2011
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The Daily Mail is owned by a gentleman named "Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere," whose net worth exceeds one billion US dollars.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Britain's Massive Anti-Austerity Strike: Could It Happen Here? RJ 2011
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But then, if they did anything else they would risk incurring the displeasure of Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Britain's Massive Anti-Austerity Strike: Could It Happen Here? RJ 2011
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