Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the bridge table, or during the fish course, it proved one of the liveliest in years. For it was a season that spawned gossip and started talk, that one week provided novelty and the next week made news. The play that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Critics' Circle Award-Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof -became most famous for telling a dirty joke about an elephant, and then cut it out of the script in the name of decency...
...Sarton's novel has had several weeks now to cool. The worn gossip of five years ago has been briefly recoined, passed once more from hand to hand. But presumably Miss Sarton wanted more than to intrigue the Harvard reader and annoy her former colleagues. Presumably she hoped to treat a very real Cambridge tragedy, lifting it to a universal problem with universal implications. It is as fiction, then, that Faithful are the Wounds must be judged, and it is as fiction that Faithful are the Wounds fails...
...young-looking woman and a large, wedge-shaped case. Each case contained an evening dress, coat, shoes and a makeup case besides its usual contents, a harp. All told, there were 50 girls and women, aged 14-40, and four men, who had come for three days of gossip, shoptalk, practice and, finally, a grand, massed harp concert...
...Alfred Joanni manager of a Kronach porcelain factory and the only man in the Kronach club who spoke English. For four years, the international airmail match ground on. Although each letter was vitally concerned with the progress of 42 chess games Joanni and Cramer managed to mix in some gossip, too. "We got to know the families and troubles of partners across the ocean." says Joanni. ''Pictures were exchanged. When one of the Americans died we let the Peorians score the game for him in reverence to the deceased...
...After two years in the job, Joseph H. McConnell. 49, resigned as president of Colgate-Palmolive Co. Though both Colgate Chairman E. H. Little and McConnell were mum on the reason, trade gossip had it that they disagreed on basic company policy. Said McConnell: "I plan to go fishing...