Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life. She is an illegitimate child born into a plain English family who cannot understand how such things can rightly be. Innocent as the day herself, Sally is farmed out as a maid-of-all-work in the Yorke family. Sally loves her employers, thinks them perfection until gossip below stairs and her own observations make it clear that they have troubles undreamed of by her. Mrs. Yorke lets her husband love her only for babies' sake; Mr. Yorke wants to love her for her own. The trouble thickens. Mr. Yorke takes to drink, then to infidelity, then...
...Premier Vyacheslav Molotov was to meet the Turks at the station. He wondered whether to wear a silk hat or the orthodox Bolshevik headgear, a cap. Mrs. Molotov. young, vivacious and a friend of young, serious Mrs. Stalin, suggested the way out of her husband's dilemma, whispered Moscow gossip. Going to the station and up to the very last moment before the train chuffed in, Premier Molotov wore his cap then whisked it out of sight as a Red Army band struck up the "Internationale" and an entire company of Red Army soldiers snapped to attention...
...President Coburn's last public act concerned Motormaker Cord, so did President Cohu's first public act. Because of a "prediction" in Walter Winchell's gossip colyum, President Cohu found it necessary to issue a denial that Mr. Cord was about to buy American Airways...
...with or married to Rudy Vallee; three Broadway playboys playing cards in a penthouse; the man who makes Mayor James J. Walker's shoes, and Mayor Walker in jolly mood, strumming one of his own tunes on a piano. In effect much like the chipper colyum of Broadway gossip which Louis Sobol writes for the New York Evening Journal, the Sobol newsreel seems ingenious and potentially popular, depending almost entirely on the intimacy of the revelations made. Observers wondered where Sobol had procured his material. He had borrowed old shots of Thaw and Nesbit from old newsreel libraries...
Object of the search was the most famous child on earth, whose birth, and, up to last week, whose life were jealously guarded secrets. So successfully did his parents keep his name and face out of the Press that ignorant gossip whispered that he must be backward, deaf, perhaps defective. But four photographs of Charles Augustus had ever been made public, one of them snapped surreptitiously last summer in Maine when his parents were flying to China. Now there issued forth from Col. Lindbergh's private collection cinema films by the score. These went broadcast through the land by mail...