Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Famed Matador Sidney Franklin (ne Frumkin) of Brooklyn has had a bad season. Many times he has been tossed, (see cut), never seriously gored. Madrid cafe gossip holds that he is about through, that few impresarios are offering him contracts...
Only means yet discovered of reaching high altitudes is offered by the rocket, with which scientific men have hesitated to experiment. They feel sure they will lose professional caste, be branded as cranks who are attempting to go to the moon. To curb such gossip rocketeers hive been more emphatic than most in insisting on the impossibility of a moon journey...
Terminal Cab, incorporated January 1930, buys from General Motors Truck Corp. Buyer and seller alike are subsidiaries of Yellow Coach & Truck Mfg. Corp., which is in turn controlled by General Motors. Taxi gossip has it that these 955 cabs, turquoise blue with a red stripe, will shortly displace the complaining Yellows as the largest fleet in the city. Their sudden prosperity is based upon the Pennsylvania and Grand Central terminal concessions, recently wrested from Yellow Taxi Corp., and calling for 800 to 900 cabs daily...
Reviewers, flipping through advance galley proofs, found much inevitable court gossip, but dug out one sprightly passage of present and international interest. "It diverts me, after the flight of years," writes cheerful Leopold of Habsburg, "to contrast the career of Sir Thomas Lipton with mine. While he shot up the social ladder I shot down. He, the one time grocer, was soon to mix in royal circles on flattering, if not on almost equal, terms, whereas I, the one time royal personage, ultimately became a grocer...
...doubt as to what is happening in my own home, I need only turn to the gossip in The Daily Wonder to find all the information I need. It may be the latest remark or action of my daughter? though probably unknown to myself?or the fact that we have changed the decoration of our London house some ten or twelve times since we first occupied it three years...