Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...files bulge with more than 20,000 of their names from A (Fred Allen, Konrad Adenauer, Dean Achesoh) to Z (Darryl Zanuck, Vera Zorina. Babe Didrikson Zaharias). The names are his cast of characters in anecdotes which are interrupted only by items of news and occasionally "the kind of gossip that doesn't hurt anyone." A typical Lyons anecdote: "I owed the Trumans a dinner, for they had been our hosts on that memorable last night in the White House . . . During the cab ride [to a restaurant], I suggested a private screening of ... Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. He shook...
...another's? Suspicion falls on the teacher, who admits that he was the last to see her. His marriage begins to come apart, the girl's parents are torn by anxiety and self-accusation, her aunt rocks clean off her rocker, the whole town is talking malicious gossip. All at once the girl reappears, unharmed. Q.E.D.: small towns will be small towns...
...police, his lawyer and his wife all fail to wheedle the hiding place from doomed Ben. Village gossip holds that Harper threw it into the Ohio just before the police closed in. But a man who has a different idea is Ben's old cellmate, "the Preacher." The Preacher is a pathological killer and a religious fanatic, a kind of evangelistic Bluebeard who murders widows for their mite, but has been caught, so far, only for stealing a car. And before he dies, Ben Harper, mumbling in his sleep, gives the Preacher a hint: "And a little child shall...
...been in office three years, it is plain who the lucky ones are, and the hungry outsiders naturally begin to grumble, agitate, fire bitter charges of inefficiency and graft. Magloire's good friend, Chief of Police Marcaisse Prosper, has provided an unfortunate focus for criticism. The juiciest current gossip of Haiti concerns Prosper's new hilltop home in fashionable Petionville, big as a U.S. small-city high school, lavishly furnished by Manhattan's W. & J. Sloane. The prosperous Prosper's salary is $350 a month...
...newsman, commenting on Childs's shift, "has made the job of the columnists impossible. He has to turn out something with meaning five days a week. He can't digest events. He's a victim of inconsistency. He can really become a kind of high-class gossip monger if he's not careful...