Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dominoes going on in the courthouse at Eufaw as long as the citizens of Greene County, Ala., can remember, marathon games played by old men in bib overalls and soiled fedoras. "I heard they been playing since the Civil War," said one of the game's regulars. The gossip and the political affairs of the county moved across the table with the domino tiles, yellowed now, like the players' hands, by age and use. But the courthouse game ended last week and with it an era. A new black sheriff and judge were sworn in, completing the takeover...
...Maxine Cheshire reported that "Snowdon is the one, according to informed sources, who is insisting upon freedom. On recent trips to New York he has been taking out a Vogue magazine staffer." That was enough to shake Buckingham Palace, which ordinarily maintains a stony silence in the face of gossip about the royal family. "No, it's simply not true," retorted the Princess's press secretary. Lord Snowdon's private secretary was more equivocal. "I do admire the Americans," she said, "but they are naughty...
...more than high-level academic gossip," said one Harvard administrative source. "For people involved in higher education these things are already known but they are quite impressive to the legislative committees with which many hard-pressed state schools must contend...
These case histories gradually create a portrait of Victorian life-social sport, gossip, entertainment-centered on a succession of gory crimes. In the process the author dispels once again the myth that a genteel, civilized Victorian England ever existed. Its underside was a subculture of squalor, misery and brutality, all sanctioned by public apathy...
Pine Bluff (pop. 57,000) is Mid-America right out of Central Casting. There is a Main Street, an Elm Street, a kindly doctor and a lot of gossip. Things haven't changed very much since Sept. 2, 1918, when Arie Beall (pronounced Bell) and her cotton-broker second husband George had their only child, Martha. She went to private schools for six years, then to public schools when the Depression hit. She excelled at nothing, except perhaps having a good time. "I liked boys at an awful early age," she says, and in one of her high school annuals...