Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern travel at his command, there may be many who will think that the shortness of his sojourn scarcely justifies so ambitious a title." But Mr. Gunther also has countless reliable friends-politicians, newspapermen, informants-who are more than willing to pump him full of biographical detail, information, gossip, anecdotes, wherever he goes. A crack journalist, he is indefatigable in collecting facts, tireless in hunting out the small details. His workmanlike book is exactly what it was meant to be-a handy, popular, political guidebook of a strife-torn continent...
...last week Heywood Broun was about to accept his marching orders in the Church militant. Gossip-column rumors that he had been converted to Catholicism were, he admitted privately, true. Thus his conversion became the most spectacular since the late Colonel Horace A. Mann's in 1933 (Colonel Mann was credited with handing out anti-Catholic propaganda during the Smith-Hoover campaign...
...LeClair Ickes. then 64, slipped away from Washington, sailed to Ireland and there, in Dublin, made screaming headlines for London papers by marrying titian-haired Jane Dahlman, 25, of Milwaukee. Last week at a press conference the press-baiting Secretary of the Interior blushed handsomely when asked if Washington gossip was true, that he was once more to become a father (in September).* Replied forthright Mr. Ickes: "I have hopes. It's great to be in public life, isn't it? ... What we need is a little more liberty from the press...
Though he has been away from Ireland since 1904, returning only briefly in 1912 to start a motion-picture house, the Volta, which quickly failed, Joyce has an unrivaled knowledge of Dublin and its current life, keeps his recollections green by subscribing to Dublin newspapers, pores over their gossip and chitchat...
...Columnist Igor Cassini of the Washington Times-Herald printed a categorical denial by Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. that there was any truth in persistent Virginia gossip that he and Ethel du Pont Roosevelt were planning to divorce. Same day Franklin Roosevelt Sr. asked the press to let him make a trip to visit his son & daughter-in-law and F. D. R. Ill (aged nine months) at Charlottesville as "Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones"-i. e. without reporters. The correspondents were sorry: "Mr. Jones" would still be President of the U. S., they must go along...