Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Bye, a professional at handling writers, fell the job of actually getting out the Nutmeg. First issue revealed that the Nutmeg will be highly departmentalized. Columnist Broun will write Nature Notes. Stanley High's Americana starts off as a gossip column. Ursula Parrott's column. This and That, suggests baked grapefruit as a change from soup and shellfish cocktails. John Erskine's regular department will be Men's Furnishings ("The belt question grows acute. . . ."), but for the first issue Mr. Erskine also contributes an editorial on relief and a timely piece on "A Central School...
...over-much study that is a weariness of the flesh. It is as true today as when Cicero said it that books adorn us in prosperity, comfort us in adversity, delight us at home and do not hinder us abroad. Time discards the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour, and the treasures remain. The field of learning widens but work becomes specialized and subdivided, and each scholar may know his part. All are under obligation to the munificence of past generations...
Readers of a weekly like TIME expect facts. They prefer to have these presented with tact and dignity. They do not want cheap gossip and unsubstantiated information...
...that this theory leads Mrs. Shephard into difficulties is an understatement: it practically floors her. Pursuing it with the vehement, triumphant air of a gossip on the trail of scandal, she gives pages of evidence that Whitman contradicted himself-which he never denied- pages to show that despite his professions of all-embracing love he had explosions of temper, pages to show that he wrote a lot of nonsense and that his disciples wrote even more...
There were two Sox rooters. Gossip had it that they were Messrs. Yawkey and Collins. Purple centerfielder Ouellette and third baseman Durand looked so good that someone yelled that the Sox ought to pick them up them and there. Someone answered that the Sox already had picked up former Purple star Desautels. He didn't look...