Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among some Berlin wiseacres there was gossip that Dr. Goebbels would be shorn of his power late this month by Führer Hitler. The Führer was said to be contemplating far-reaching changes in Nazi administration on January 30, the sixth anniversary of Nazi rule. Having failed to give his usual Christmas broadcast to Germany's children, Dr. Goebbels rallied for New Year's, and in a firm, clear voice expressed the general feeling in Germany that 1938 had been a great year for the Nazis. Said the doctor: "Never has it been so hard...
...letters and diaries, even if scandalous, create scandal for only a few years. Burned (like Byron's letters to his sister, Richard Burton's diaries), they scandalize a writer's name for good. Expurgated (like Pepys's diaries, Horace Walpole's letters), they start gossip which endures as long as the suppressed letters and diaries remain locked in bank vaults. After 50, 100, 150 years their outmoded revelations seem singularly innocent...
...Historians and biographers have long since ranked them among the greatest English political diaries. But, because some 80,000 words of the 91 red-covered notebooks were suppressed and because they were written in simple code the general impression remained that Greville's Memoirs were filled with indecent gossip...
...from confirming this impression, the unexpurgated diary shows Greville as extremely scrupulous-too scrupulous-in omitting just this kind of Pepysian gossip. His diary deals almost entirely with serious political events-Cabinet crises, diplomatic juggling, Queen Victoria's shrewish squabbles with her ministers. Its value: that Greville, a shrewd and accurate reporter, wrote from the inside, that most of the leading political and literary figures of the day-the Duke of Wellington, Palmerston, Peel, the Princess de Lieven, Macaulay-were his friends. His scandals -such as the lustful Duke of Cumberland's attack on Lady Lyndhurst-are those...
...grew to a claimed 400,000 members and signed up 850 textile plants, brusque and able Sidney Hillman gained in stature. He did not trouble to conceal Francis Gorman's descent into obscurity. Labor gossips soon reported that Mr. Gorman was fretting in his Washington corner. Last summer, he confirmed the gossip by suddenly quitting the council...