Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...column "Cincinnatus," Segal plays both big brother and conscience to the Past's readers. His mild, low-keyed column shuns gossip, rarely stirs up sensation, never thunders. Instead, he may tell of a child with cerebral palsy, the of a 90-year-old friend, the good work of a priest he knows. Then again, he may just write about a pleasant, sunny day. Says Segal: "Cincinnatus looks with some tolerance on the sinner, with compassion on the pauper, with a sense of humor at the millionaire, and attempts to understand even the murderer . . . This is the world with...
...basic requirement that Government employment must be "clearly consistent with the interests of national security" is open to considerable question. It could-and probably has been-interpreted to mean that hearsay, malicious gossip and unsupported accusations constitute doubts that must be resolved in favor of the Government...
...book often has the pleasant, ungirdled quality of small-town gossip, is never bitter or doctrinaire about the South. It also manages to maintain a bit of suspense about the Wales-Greene mystery, though most of it gets lost in such a welter of flashbacks that even Cinema-Scope will have trouble straightening things out. The novel's outstanding quality is its cozy cousinship with a major American literary pattern-the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town. A few of the other cousins in this huge family, in addition to Marquand...
Generations of Americans have clustered about her knees to hear her stories; even when she was younger, Kathleen Norris sounded like Grandmother, recalling the gossip and the gallants of her girlhood. Between her first novel, Mother (1911), which sold an estimated 4.500,000 copies, and her latest (No. 78), so many of her books were sold that all count was lost. Novelist Norris could not even keep track of the number of her novels bought by the movies (at least 23, including My Best Girl and Wife for Sale). In her 78 novels she has written, by her estimate, about...
...like that sort of thing much," snorts father Kelly. "I'd like to see Grace married. These people in Hollywood think marriage is like a game of musical chairs." When the gossips reported that Ray Milland was leaving his wife for Grace, mother Kelly hustled out to California to set things straight. Milland insists that he only took her to dinner once; Grace says nothing. Most recently Grace's escort has been Dress Designer Oleg Cassini, one time husband of Gene Tierney and professional man-about-ladies. The Kellys deplore all such gossip-column romances...