Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always gentlemen who would take the horses out of her carriage to drag her in triumph to her lodgings. Yet she had the pathos of sincerity that lacked only the understanding of itself. In a sense, her stage appearance was a franker, more straightforward sensationalism than that practiced-among gossip columns, fan magazines and semi-public scandals-by Lola's Hollywood successors...
...wound up playing to miners in Nevada, and even worse, in the Australian goldfields. It was there, at last, that someone had the common sense to get on to the horsewhip dodge (which was the Victorian form of the modern gossip queen's "denial" of a "romance"). Lola was flailing away as usual at the local editor, a coarse colonial called Seekamp, when he hit her right back. It discouraged...
...evidence and pointed to Broady, a lawyer turned private eye, as the top tapper who had hired them. As the stars in a parade of 39 witnesses at Broady's trial, the two provided the district attorney with his most damning evidence, the newspapers with enough gossip to keep East Side telephones, from PLaza I to BUtterfield 8, buzzing for weeks. Items: ¶ Blimpish John Jacob Astor testified that in 1954 he had hired Broady to tap the phone in his Fifth Avenue home in the hope of learning some of the secrets of Gertrude Gretsch Astor, his wife...
...December of 1952, Townsend resolved his personal problems by divorcing Rosemary for adultery,** but even though he was in constant attendance on Margaret and her mother, the divorce caused scarcely a ripple of speculation or gossip. Peter Townsend was too much a fixture in the royal family; the press of Britain, vainly trying to marry the Princess off to a whole parade of eligible earls and marquesses, was too busy to notice. Too busy, that is, until the coronation, when a sharp-eyed reporter in an Abbey anteroom caught Margaret affectionately brushing off the lapels of Airman Townsend...
...making magazines, Jet, Tan and Hue, in Ebony's wake, has had to weather some major setbacks. Ebony, flourishing at first on a spicy diet of sex and sensation, dropped 100,000 circulation last year. Publisher Johnson, 37, countered with a drive for home subscribers, dropped cheesecake and gossip for more serious reporting of Negroes in the news, and won back his readers. Johnson learned the hard way that the new-style Ebony is more in tune with its readers' interests. Says he: "The Negro press has depended too much on emotion and racial pride. Negroes have grown...