Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improve the functionings of the Radio production staff. Pathe's vice president-in-charge-of-production, Charles G. Rogers, now also a vice president of RKO-Radio, will continue to be responsible for Pathe productions. Hollywood gossip however lost no time in concluding that the controlling figure in RKO-Radio and RKO-Pathe would be David Selznick, that his policies would determine the management of both companies. In general, Radio pictures will, for the future, be made at a lower than average (for Hollywood) cost. The Selznick idea is to develop stars rather than buy them ready made; to recruit...
...most social orders, to be conventional is to be dull, to be unconventional is to be damned. Out of the fears of the dull and the struggles of the damned springs Fashion, full-armed, and Gossip, first instruments of human culture and advancement. That these necessities have found a spokesman on Beacon Hill is a subject for congratulation. Such literature flowers from the good sub-soil of snobbery, without which no society could exist, a pale flower, but unquestionably an orchid...
...houses, gave the checks to wizened little Bobby Barton, chauffeur for Jack Gusick, Capone's "financial secretary." Barton, known as "The Little Man," did not testify, but kept popping in & out of court to be identified. Snorkey seemed interested in Ries's testimony, caused spectators to recall gossip that gangsters were looking for him since he helped to get Gusick a five-year sentence. A handwriting expert identified Capone's signature on one of the checks Ries said were gambling profits. Up jumped Prosecutor Johnson, spoke his first words of the trial...
Since you want all the gossip, I will tell you that the condition was what our grandmothers used to call a "cold on the kidneys," although the doctors have a fancy name for it now. I am home again and all right, and will continue to worry you with novels of which you strongly disapprove. They do not make much of a hit with New York intellectuals, it appears, but they have changed the mentality of a whole new generation of the students of China, Japan, India and Russia. Has any of your collectors of gossip told you that...
...newly equipped Condor at the Berliner-Joyce aircraft plant, shrewdly wrote that Eastern Air Transport proposed to use it in regular service. The transport company was deeply embarrassed because it had not yet applied to the Department of Commerce for permission to use the robot. To check further gossip and placate the Department, it conducted last week's public flight, stated with great emphasis that it was "preliminary to official flights soon to be made for inspectors of the Department of Commerce...