Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Vittorini excels is in matters that are more real than romantic. He brings to life the hostel in which Mainardi and his fellow boarders eat, sleep, gossip, quarrel, and exchange adolescent dogma on everything from Homer to modern politics. He gets down pat the earnest remarks that bubble from sophomoric lips ("I absolutely agree with the ancient Greeks"). He knows how hard it is for any boy to keep a secret, and how the fears and fond hopes of a father and mother cling like leeches to a boy's guilty skin. He knows just how rumor rules...
...conference with John Steelman, the President's right-hand man on labor and mobilization. For three hours the steelmen, headed by U.S. Steel's Vice Chairman Roger Blough, discussed steel prices. There was no announcement of what went on, but the gossip was that the trip was well worthwhile. Over the objections of other administration aides, Steelman was reportedly ready to grant a $5.20-a-ton price increase. This was $1.50 more than the steel companies were entitled to under the Capehart amendment, plus a 70? allowance for higher freight rates. It was also just about what...
...Thou shalt not gossip...
Although there was gossip that Kirkpatrick felt the same as Bierly, both Kirkpatrick and John Keenan, the only remaining founder, denied it. Added Keenan: "[The] widespread rumor and gossip recently to the effect that a change in the ownership and policies ... is being contemplated . . . [is] entirely unfounded...
...clerk at the publisher Hachette's, started Zola off on the main track of his career. He ran a literary gossip column for a scandal sheet, hacked out newspaper serials, and even managed to publish a couple of poor books...