Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposite pole from timid Freshmen are scornful upperclassmen who are "too busy" for a chat, or who refuse to go through "all that red tape." This is nonsense, or at least an exaggeration. Deans are busy men with little time for idle gossip or banter, but they are certainly far from aloof. Rumor to the contrary, a puzzled or worried student can still obtain an appointment quite as readily and quickly at University Hall as he could with any active business or professional man. Few persons would choose to sit in their rooms and worry about an exam when adequate...
...chose Hugo Black as the man best fitted to fill the one vacancy on the Supreme Court the Department of Justice went carefully over a list of some 60 possible appointees. That not one of the President's advisers had uncovered a bit of information that was common gossip or had passed it on to the President, seemed to be the shocking significance of the President's statement. It was on this point that the President's ablest critics blamed the President. One- time NRAdministrator Hugh Johnson, who currently flays the New Deal as energetically...
...President had not known that gossip credited Hugo Black with belonging to the Ku Klux Klan before nominating him to the Supreme Court, he could scarcely have failed to learn about it soon afterward. Before the Senate confirmed the nomination, the subject of Hugo Black's connection with the Klan was discussed on the floor. By last week, at least nine Senators who had voted for Hugo Black had hastily announced that they would not have done so if they had been assured that he was a member of the Klan. Senators Walsh and Copeland suggested that Mr. Black...
...Rita, and fled to the South Seas. Returning a famous man, he signs a contract obliging him to fake bachelorhood for seven years. The strain tells first on Rita, who returns to Manhattan, second on Terry, who has been linked to Stephanie (Mona Barrie), the studio siren, in publicity gossip. A large plane winging eastward shows Terry on his way back to Rita, the band and Manhattan. Another good man has broken through the lucred shams of Hollywood...
...Never, until I watched this kaleidoscope of little life, did I realize how much rats cooperate and gossip...