Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publish lots of gossip, and I suppose you cannot be expected to spend much time finding out whether it is true or not. A reporter for a Los Angeles newspaper called up my wife and said he understood I was suffering from a nervous breakdown. My wife replied that it was absolutely untrue, that I was going to a hospital to have my physician seek the cause of a feverish condition. Nevertheless, the story went out all over the country that I was suffering from a nervous breakdown. Apparently a man in America is absolutely defenseless against newspaper rascality...
...When a yellow girl, reputed to be the daughter of President Tyler and living in his entourage in the White House, eloped with a white man and in punishment was sold 'down the river,' the matter was so ordinary as to cause only a piquant wave of gossip in Washington society. What was customary, in this regard, of those in high places was true to a greater degree of the generality of slave owners." Result is a melange of black and white, dashed with red. The U. S. Census counts 20% of Negroes as mulattoes. Private sociological estimates...
...purported interview with Miss Davies' great & good friend Pub lisher Hearst, relating that he, too, had just arrived in Los Angeles, with the words: "I'm just CWAZY about Europe." On the back page were eight more little pictures of Miss Davies, and a lengthy colyum of studio gossip by "Prunella Parsnips," parodying Louella Parsons, Hearst reporter of Hollywood chit-chat...
...gloomy house; one locked room was haunted. To this unlikely refuge came Katherine, an unwanted sister-in-law, with her baby daughter Mary, because she had nowhere else to go. Phoebe, taciturn bully of the household, hated Katherine because she could not bully her. Milly, the prying gossip and Lucia and Emma, the ineffectual twins kept a frightened neutrality. Katherine soon died, but with her last breath warned the sisters to be kind to Mary, or else?. Sinister old Phoebe transferred her hatred of the mother to the child. The other old maids, in powerless horror, thought they were about...
...lawless fellow. Not one who goes about with an evil smirk doing all manner of evil, but merely one whose life is bounded by no laws. He walks where he lists and he talks when he lists. It is therefore difficult for him to understand the idle gossip which he continually hears about "law and order." He has seen and heard many evidences of the power of the law. A drunken, riotous crowd in a country tavern will be stilled by firm knocks at the door and the cry of "King's men and the Law." Famous and awesome...