Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...servants at Edmund's house quickly pick up the news about Edmund and Bridget and pass it to the servants at a neighboring country house. Servants No. 2 have some lively gossip to offer in exchange. Naturally, the domestic service is not always what it might be, but nobody really cares, because everybody is too deeply engaged in talking. "We seem to be living in a play," protests one respectable young lady. And so they are, with Stage Manager Compton-Burnett keeping comedy always slightly ahead of tragedy, and fashioning surprise endings for some of her characters' more...
...number of guests converge on weekends. They devour mountains of Myrtle's antipasto, prosciutto, spaghetti, pork and chicken, and then, with a pot of caffe espresso at hand, swim for the rest of the afternoon in the warm gurgling current of Italo-American argument and gossip...
...Duchess of Kent, sister-in-law of King George VI, would get a proper cup of tea at the matinee, the management of London's Scala Theater scurried to a theatrical costumer, laid out $28 to rent a solid gold tea service for the afternoon. Next day, Mayfair gossip that the duchess would announce her engagement to handsome Anthony Eden turned out to be far from solid. Eden's secretary told the Sunday Pictorial: "Not a shred of truth in the rumor...
...Hollywood's happiest, after Barbara testified that Taylor had enjoyed his freedom while making a movie in Italy and wanted "to continue his life without restrictions." She added: "I was very shocked . . . For several weeks I was under the care of my physician." ¶When a gossip columnist began commiserating with Linda Darnell, 27, who had just got her divorce from Cameraman Peverell Marley, 49 (TIME, Feb. 26), Linda cheerfully whipped out a copy of her wire to Marley in Florida: "Hi, dear. All went very smoothly. Congrats. You're a free man. Have a drink with...
Margaret Truman was 21 and marriageable-the first marriageable White House daughter in more than a quarter of a century. Gossip columnists hopefully reminded their readers of the wooing and winning of T.R.'s daughter Alice by Nicholas Longworth, and the marriages of the Wilsons, father & daughters. They noticed, and noted in their syndicated columns, every young man Margaret saw more than once...