Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rotor. McDonnell will not tell what its convertiplane will be like. Sky-side gossip believes that it will have a rotor driven by some sort of jet. One possibility is small ram-jets on each blade tip to push the rotor around. Another is a central turbojet engine blowing hot gases through hollow rotor blades. The gas will escape as jets from one side of each blade tip, making the rotor spin. When the aircraft has gained enough altitude, the central engine will be used to propel it forward, supported partly by the windmilling rotor, partly by small wings...
...fought through the Cameroons campaign as an officer in a Nigerian regiment, later became magistrate of a district deep in the bush. Of the four novels that have come out of his African experience, Mister Johnson is the best, at once humorous and sympathetic, fresh and exuberant as Negro gossip...
...nightclub, the best parties of all were thrown at the Renaissance-style Palazzo Labia, just off the Grand Canal. To avoid the clatter of dishwashing at his fancier banquets, Host Labia frequently ordered his soiled gold tableware chucked into the canal at the end of each course. (The ugly gossip was that he had laid a stout fish net on the canal bottom beforehand.) The Labias and their dinnerware have long since passed into oblivion, but last week the Labia palace was all lit up again for the biggest binge cosmopolite café society had seen in a doge...
...planes (59,446 ft.); his own earlier records (secret). Finally he passed the highest of all: the record 72,395-ft. balloon flight of balloonists Captain Orvil A. Anderson* and the late Captain Albert W. Stevens in 1935. Just how high he got, the Navy would not say. Aviation gossip believes that the Skyrocket reached an altitude of more than 77,000 ft. (nearly 15 miles...
...second is life as chronicled in the gossip columns, which pretend to take the reader into the star's boudoir and living room. In this world, Ava emerges as a femme only slightly less fatale...