Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special session, with Episcopal Bishop Thomas Frank Gailor presiding. For every honorary degree unanimous consent was necessary. When ballots on "General" Farley's name were scrutinized, one looked like a squiggly, illegible "No." It was certainly not a "Yes." Then up spoke Trustee Arthur Crownover, according to campus gossip, to point out that the by-laws said an illegible ballot must be thrown out. "Then throw it out." said Bishop Gailor...
...maintenance of $300 a month, use of their 11-room house on the South Side, the Pierce-Arrow, Arthur the chauffeur and Rosalee the maid. Publisher Abbott was permitted to keep the Rolls Royce which, he has confided to friends, he bought second-hand to set at rest the gossip of competing Negro papers that the Defender was on the rocks...
...mere adventure story by a long shot, Anthony Adverse is packed full of shrewd comment, tart gossip, homely saws. Thus Carlo Cibo, Havana epicurean, on young man's estate: "My God! . . . did you ever think what a terrible mess a young man really is? I mean a youth. That is - a kind of portable apparatus or attachment to three troublesome globes, one who has just stopped being a mad boy and has not yet been scared into being a decent man. One feels profoundly sorry for him. The only peace he can get is for a few hours after...
...courses he recommends, or is too busy to study the requirements of the individual student. The result, in instance after instance, is that the Freshman is obliged to get his information from various and sundry unsatisfactory sources: he consults a Senior whom he knows; he listens to the gossip among the more cock-sure of his colleagues; or he gives up the task, and relies on the fates to lead him to the right choice of a schedule...
...school of Pangborn-sympathizers nursed the belief that Pangborn had been treated shabbily. The whole business was soon forgotten by the public, until last month when Liberty published an article by Aviatrix Elinor Smith entitled "I'm Fed Up With Stunt Flying." This revived the old gossip, with embellishments. Excerpts...