Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failed to mention another major source of Hollywood gossip: the hundreds of professional pressagents hired by studios and individuals to get movie names in print...
...night before, Margaret had come down from Manhattan to Washington for the occasion. A late riser by preference, she roused herself for an "early" (8:40) breakfast with her father at Blair House, lunched with her mother before going off to Best Friend Jane Lingo's house to gossip, giggle and eat her favorite chocolate cake with her old school chums...
Part of his successes were simply due to his capacity for decision and his instinct for sweeping aside triviality. He refused to stoop to the Washington weapons of gossip and rumor. But when Columnist Drew Pearson wrote that he was eavesdropping on Navy Secretary James Forrestal with a special electronic device, he angrily threatened to sue-not Pearson, but each of his 500 newspapers-and forced Pearson to print a retraction which Wilson wrote himself...
...said that he had served with Remington on the War Production Board in Washington at one time. He also said that the chemical formula for making rubber or gasoline from garbage, which Remington is alleged to have given to the Soviets, was treated as a "crackpot idea" in office gossip...
There is no question that Novelist Caldwell knows how to serve up her gossip with relish. And in the process, she occasionally produces the same kind of little home truths that a good soap-opera scripter turns out. Readers who find it worthwhile to wade through 496 pages of Novelist Caldwell's fast typing in search of such finds will undoubtedly set sales of The Balance Wheel to rising as merrily as those of its twelve predecessors...