Word: gossipeer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...matter requiring the approval of the Queen, the government and the Church of England-had nothing to do with it. "Such a matter . . . has never come before the cabinet." said he, "and I think I am voicing the opinion of all members when I say that . . . deplorable speculation and gossip [should be] brought...
...head' . . . I have never in my life had an indictment returned against me or a warrant issued for me. I have never been arraigned before twelve of my citizens to be tried for any crime. Decide from the truth . . . and records, not from misleading, false, smearing gossip...
Unnoticeable. It was understandable that the gossips had overlooked slim, personable Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, D.S.O., D.F.C., even though his picture had been appearing in the papers alongside Margaret for years. The gossip columnists who had long sought to probe the secrets of the princess' heart simply forgot the Holmesian precept that the most easily overlooked clue is often the most obvious one. As a royal equerry and deputy master of King George VI's household (appointed in 1944 when Margaret was only 14), he had the constant duty of accompanying the royal family...
...sickroom as well as in it. The fact that most pastoral calls are unwelcome in the morning (before the house is straightened), and that in the afternoon most women are alone, tends to put the minister in a situation that is "embarrassing, even dangerous," such is the power of gossip: "Let me set it down, plain and positive: it is a dangerous practice for any minister to call on a woman alone in her home." If the minister is lucky enough to have a child below school age, this "is an efficient bodyguard...
Butchered News. Red opens his half-hour radio show by playing one of a variety of roles: either he is Louella Blanchard retailing gossip or Lowell Blanchard butchering the news; sometimes he is a hayseed called Barefoot Bogardus or a private eye known as The Flat Man ("I'm 9 ft. 12 in. tall and weigh 67 Ibs. When I stand sideways I disappear."). But the big deal in the show comes when Red takes his "raving microphone" and interviews his hepcat audience against a background of teen-age screams. Most of his fans identify themselves with Blanchardisms...