Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clara Province. Santa Clara's boss is now Juan Antonio Vasquez Bello, Machado henchman and brother of Machado's late good friend Clemente, who was assassinated last year. Last week a Vasquez Bello man, Representative Arturo B. Aleman, wrote a letter to the newspaper Information answering small gossip he had heard that Carlos had spread about him. Promptly Carlos sent his seconds to Aleman to demand a duel (illegal in Cuba). Aleman chose seconds and primed his pistols. Groaning, President Gerardo Machado sent for Brother Carlos, told him to disappear until the bicker had been settled...
...Yorker, which has faithfully narrated the lighter side of Mr. T. S. Eliot's adventures at Harvard this year, presented in last week's number one of its choice bits of Eliot-gossip. We at Harvard have little first-hand knowledge of this one because it all happened at Brown...
...Carillon, best non-sporting dog, look like a Harlem belle. The sixth dog was a magnificent black & tan Airedale, Warland Protector of Shelterock, best terrier, just arrived in the U. S. after a long string of victories in England. A good Airedale pup can be bought for $35. Ringside gossip said that Warland Protector had cost his owner, S. M. Stewart of Montclair...
Miss Annie Baxter, no innocuous gossip, does a rushing day's business, culminating in one of her usual anonymous letters; then flounces to prayer meeting...
Poet Laureate John Dryden wrote pat parts for her saucy tongue; she even essayed tragic roles, much to the disgust of Gossip Samuel Pepys. Pepys was mighty proud of going behind the scenes once and meeting Actress Nell. Said he: "I kissed her, and so did my wife: and a mighty pretty soul she is." When she was 17 Lord Buckhurst gave her her first vacation from the stage; soon after, the Merry Monarch himself looked her way. Nell's cockney wit was never abashed by grand company. She made her royal lover laugh by saying that "he might...