Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kitchen), the town elders glance up from their cards and shrug: "It's only Pierrot." But his organization men, waiting in the backroom, are excited and cordial, report happily of hundreds of new dues-paying members since election, listen while Poujade regales them with a bit of gossip from the big city and a lot of Poujade propaganda...
Gertrude or P.T.? Apart from such embarrassment as it may cause the author's immediate friends, the moral and intellectual striptease is a legitimate novelistic device for baring some universal truth. In The Malefactors, it becomes an end in itself, exposing only cliquish gossip. Written with sensibility, if debatable sense, the novel inadvertently reveals that the Lost Generation may not have been lost at all, just born to be led astray and taken in. Was its christener, Gertrude Stein, its patron saint after all, or was it P. T. Barnum...
Reginald, conceded that Douglas "had no personal knowledge as to the true facts." Said aggrieved Sir Reginald: "This chap goes around and collects bazaar gossip and puts it in his books as the truth...
...responsible British press paid little heed, but, as is often the case in British royal family matters, the gossip got an added fillip from a big play in New York's tabloid Daily News, which quoted unnamed "sources close to the royal household." London's own Woman's Sunday Mirror caught the ball and tossed it even higher, with a report that "priests in Rome are now taking part in three special days of prayer for the conversion of the Princess to the Roman Catholic faith." The Mirror went on to quote "an important Vatican official...
...whose name means "master of ships," claims to be the world's biggest independent shipowner, with some 1.600,000 tons afloat and abuilding (v. Moore-McCormack's 400,000 tons). Though he has launched more ships than any other Greek since Helen, Niarchos is better known to gossip columnists as an international party-thrower who is so heavy with chips that he helped with the down payment when his brother-in-law-and No. 3 Independent Shipowner*-Aristotle Socrates Onassis purchased the Casino at Monte Carlo...