Word: busybodyness
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For centuries, France's spinsters (technically all unmarried women over 25) have cut loose once a year on the day of their saint (who was a spinster herself). Last week, according to custom, the procession of "Catherinettes" (composed largely of midinettes in crazy headgear) stampeded to the saint'...
He infuriated thousands. He was a busybody and an office tyrant, who fired (and rehired) stenographers almost daily, roared epithets at underlings. He was a master at political conniving. He engaged in feuds with City Hall reporters, once had a New York Times man tailed, and triumphantly told the reporter...
The principal character is Mrs. Marsan, an idle widow on an annuity who in real life would be rated as an unbearable nuisance. She pries into her neighbors' personal affairs, is happiest when unsuspecting lovers or brawlers are focused in her handy opera glasses. With the bumbling kindliness of...
¶The Saturday Evening Post paid $1,500 out of court for calling a man a "Stalinist busybody." The Post recently paid $11,000 for calling someone else "a Communist wrecker in American labor." One reason for the big difference in payoffs: one man had only been damned in passing...
Miss Barrymore as Ernle's mother can make you laugh or cry with expressive eyes that are not appreciated on the stage. Barry Fitzgerald in the role of a kindly old busybody delivers his usual charming performance. June Dupres is a deeply touching heroine.