Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...householders on Bellevue Place, tenants of sleek new apartments and keepers of genteel rooming houses, didn't mind the idea of a local poets' corner until word got out that Mrs. Stevenson planned to convert the basement and garden of her house into a bohemian bistro. Chicago Gossip Columnist Irving ("Kup") Kupcinet confided in the Sun-Times that Mrs. Stevenson planned "a European style cafe [with] a combination of theatre and nite-club performances." The neighborhood exploded. In vain did Mrs. Stevenson and friends explain that the basement club would be private, the garden performances Shakespearean and very...
Calumny. In Adams, Wis., the Adams County Times carried this personal notice: "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Stop the evil gossip that I used a butcher knife on my husband, Walter. It is not so . . . Mrs. Walter Buchanan...
...several regular features carried in the Alumni Bulletin today, by far the most popular is the alumni notes. These items, which record marriages, promotions, or births pertaining to the members of each graduated class, are avidly read by alumni, according to editor Hall, because "everyone likes gossip." One cannot mention the Bulletin's alumni notes, however, without mentioning Jane E. Howard. Miss Howard, former secretary and now assistant to the magazine's editor, has painstakingly complied and checked the notes for 32 years. She is known, semi-officially, as "the lady without whom the Alumni Notes would appear under...
...houses and shacks of Dutch, English, French and Kaffir Africans. On the surface, it is like any other valley in the civilized world-"a poor community," says old Jacob Fieldfare, "[where] someone is always frowning over a bill, or scraping to buy a new coat. We tell lies and gossip, our faces are drawn with longing for possessions and qualities which we do not have: power, personality, happiness, electric light, golf championships, more brandy, exciting friends, fame, white skins, a second chance, youth, a penny off the milk or a penny on the milk...
Massingham's story and others that followed were too much for Deputy Labor Party Leader Herbert Morrison. Bitterly, he scolded the Observer and party members who "retail gossip about confidential proceedings." The Observer quickly replied that "it is at party meetings that policy questions are thrashed out. Should the public be denied all information about these debates, which are clearly of public interest? There is a tendency nowadays to limit the activities of reporters ... to receiving official handouts." The Observer was immediately joined by the Times. "It is no function of newspapers," thundered the Times, "to keep politicians...