Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Theodore Roosevelt rough-rode up San Juan Hill, Frank Richardson Kent was starting as a political reporter on the Baltimore Sim. Today this small, smart newshawk is one of the country's most famed commentators on political Washington. No key-hole gossip, he makes Democrats and Republicans alike quake with his breezy invective and the tart sagacity he packs into his daily column, "The Great Game of Politics," is quoted from ocean to ocean. Yet until lately Frank Kent could be read in full nowhere except in the Baltimore...
...also true that most of the U. S. remains earnestly behind the New Deal. The Satevepost's outbursts fell on many an unfriendly ear. Result: rumbling rumors. As far back as last April it was whispered that the Post's sudden vitality was costing it dearly in circulation. Gossip said that Editor Lorimer and his aides, Caret Garrett, Samuel Blythe, Frank Condon and Harry Leon Wilson, had slipped quietly away to Palm Springs, Calif. for a lengthy secret conference as to whether the Post should continue its bombardment of the Roosevelt Administration...
...Babe Ruth, who last month announced he would manage a major-league team or retire next season, was, according to gossip in the Hot Stove League, being groomed for the job of running the Philadelphia Athletics by famed old Connie Mack. Last week Ruth and Mack were on their way to Japan for a baseball tour...
...late years, mysterious Banker Butler has expanded into other phases of the lumber business and, according to local gossip, mellowed. He is still a recluse, living in a mansion overlooking Puget Sound, taking solitary trips East and to California with his wife. And he still conducts his banking business, and his political operations, through close-mouthed Lieutenants. But ever since the death of his only son after a tonsillectomy in 1918, Banker Butler, whom few dare call "Bill" to his face, has been gradually loosening the strings on his money bags. With three others, he built a fine new hospital...
...Hedda Gabler, Wendy in Peter Pen, Anya in The Cherry Orchard or 30 other rôles. Somewhat startled by sudden recognition, Cinemactress Hutchinson was treated to a thorough series of camera tests designed to find out the most effective means of photographing her angular, expressive face. Meanwhile Hollywood gossip writers pigeonholed information to use in case the tests turned out as well as Warner Brothers hoped: Josephine Hutchinson, 25, is divorced from a grandson of Inventor Graham Bell. She weighs 103, lives in Manhattan, likes riding, won a scholarship in an acting school at 16, plays the harp...