Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...town Gossip goes around hoping to be the first to get the lowdown on the newcomers. The Author reflects on his new status as householder and taxpayer, wistful over old dreams of adventure, contented in his new respectability. He has a colloquy with the postman. Seeing a school of porpoises he recalls the time when as a boy he and a friend thought they had seen a sea serpent. He takes off his neighbors in a spirit of friendly fun. He relishes acquaintance with some of the local characters. There are summer visitors and uncongenial friends of his wife...
...cocked their heads and adjusted their glasses as the sleek mannequins rustled to ward them in long-skirted evening gowns, sport dresses with Brazil nuts for buttons, coats made of steamer rugs, woolen dresses with oilcloth grapes. Soon the buyers would stream out of the city with notes and gossip on the fashions Paris was about to set the world for the winter...
...success opened the eyes of Editor Ross to the importance of the Manhattan socialite, to the fact that Broadway gossip sounds dull on Park Avenue...
...targets on its editorial page are Radio, press agentry, censorship, Freedom of the Press, persons who think advertising rates should be lowered or telegraph rates upped. A newsboy at 7, Editor Pew lately plumped for the 14-year limit for newsboys, against the publishers' lobby. He detests most gossip columnists, calls Walter Winchell a "journalistic gangster...
...Gossip engaged Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. to Ethel du Pont, daughter of Sportsman-Horticulturist Eugene du Pont, director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Fumed the du Fonts: "There is absolutely nothing to the report." That evening the President's third son was a house guest at Miss du Pont's Wilmington debut...