Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor's late patients complained that they left him too much money when they died. The police received notes, sometimes anonymous, even suggesting-without any facts-that he had hastened their deaths. They ordered an inquest on one of the patients (verdict: suicide) and, as the buzz of gossip rose, called in Scotland Yard...
Drenched to the skin, they dry out their clothes before a roaring fire and very nearly burn the last social bridge between them. Village gossip assumes the worst, and Hatsue's father plays the ogre. In the popular Japanese tradition, true love of this kind is expected to end badly, preferably with a double suicide jump off the face of a cliff or into a volcano. Novelist Mishima resolutely avoids the bucket-of-tears finale for an imitation Western happy ending, which will startle readers by its incongruity. But love in Japan is not so much the book...
...want heartthrobs, not laughs). Once, seven years ago, she walked uninvited into the stateroom of a man she had just met on shipboard. Faithful listeners were scandalized. Helen is now allowed to wear tight skirts and low-cut gowns, but she neither smokes nor drinks. Helen's enemy, Gossip Columnist Daisy Parker, drinks a "martini on the rocks," always specifying, "and no olive"-thus conclusively demonstrating her low moral stature...
...kings (his 18-horse stable includes Nashua's dam, Segula). A lover of good food and wine, he has been known to explain to dallying guests, as he heads for the dining room: "My cook doesn't like to be kept waiting." He likes to dance and gossip,-"gives or attends at least five parties a week in London or Paris. Largely to accommodate his friends, Niarchos maintains a Long Island estate, a duplex apartment in Manhattan, town houses in Paris and Athens, a London penthouse at Claridge's once occupied by Sir Winston Churchill, a four...
...quiet afternoon in the South African shanty village of Moroka. Children played in the dusty roadway and mangy dogs snoozed in the warm sun. Women attended to their pots and gossip. Then Tikoloshe turned...