Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury Department hit upon an item of news which made them wince. It was General Order No. 1 of Acting Secretary Morgenthau, to the effect that hereafter all Treasury news must come from him or a single press relations expert. The order meant that newsmen could no longer gossip, even anonymously, with subordinate Treasury officials who for years had given them many a friendly steer through the complexities of fiscal affairs. Largely because these informal and informative contacts had lately resulted in Treasury news and views out of harmony with the President's monetary program Secretary Morgenthau clapped...
History, defined politely as "the formal record of the past,'' is really organized gossip; but among the historians who retail it there are generally more bores than raconteurs. Historian Ralph Roeder is no bore. His crowded subject, the climax of the Italian Renaissance (1494-1530), could easily trip and entangle a pedestrian fact-plodder, but Author Roeder slips adroitly through its thickets, his eye always on one of his relay of four guides (Savonarola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Aretino). Not a portrait of some composite Renaissance man but four overlapping biographies of typical men of the time...
...President's technique of entertaining potent guests in the presence of others to preclude political gossip was again exhibited when J. Pierpont Morgan and U. S. Steel's Myron C. Taylor were White House tea guests. At dinner two evenings previously, the President had entertained Bernard Mannes Baruch, a onetime adviser whom he had not seen since July. The result of a clever design of happy coincidences, these visits had the effect of assuring the nation's businessmen that although Franklin Roosevelt might be pursuing a highly experimental monetary policy, he still was breaking bread with important...
...high living have been greatly exaggerated. Some readers may be surprised to hear that he resembled his mother, the Good Queen, "as much in mind as in body. . . . He had his mother's sound sense, her natural goodness towards others, her smile." But he was a great gossip. He set a hot pace for future Princes of Wales by becoming his time's sartorial authority ("his absentmindedness started the fashion of leaving the bottom button of the waistcoat undone; another time it made trousers turn up at the foot") and an almost professional student of insignia and decorations...
...Cambridge correspondent, in a recent letter from that seat of English glory, passes on the current gossip about the gloomy Dean Inge. At one time, when the famous churchman was writing for a London paper, a friend asked him: "Shall I address you as a pillar of the Church of England, or as two columns of the Evening Standard?" This story, we are told, is the very life and breath of the swank wine parties of the Colleges at the moment...