Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next three years Ossorio attended to Prince Adan's education, was sometimes to be seen escorting the Infanta Dolores on horseback excursions through the Andalusian countryside. The infanta's exalted rank and the 16-year difference in their ages stilled gossip...
...actress. Yates, who was born in 1831, was a clerk in the General Post Office when he turned to spare time journalism in 1852. He wrote for Chambers' Journal, the Daily News and Dickens' Household Words, meanwhile trying to persuade London newspapers to let him do a gossip column for them. In 1855 a new paper called the Illustrated Times let him try this new experiment in journalism. It was so successful that within three years Yates was invited to edit a new paper, Town Talk...
...second issue of Town Talk Yates wrote an impertinent, unfriendly piece about Thackeray, accusing him, among other things, of "an extravagant adulation of birth and position." Thackeray accused Yates of picking up gossip at the Garrick Club and managed to have him blackballed. Dickens, who had been the subject of a flattering piece in the first issue, defended Yates, although he condemned the article and wrote that the entire incident, which had become a literary sensation, was "a frightful mess, muddle, complication and botheration." The incident definitely scarred Dickens' and Thackeray's relationship. Yates remembered it bitterly...
Denied both food and the delights of sniping at the host, the gossip-hungry craned for a glance at a famous man enduring austerity. But except for a few Latin American and Asian diplomats and a scattering of military men, there was none to be seen-the star guests had all accepted invitations with alacrity (thus getting their names in the Washington society pages and serving notice that they thought Tito was on the right track), but had been unavoidably detained at the last minute...
...journalists (no doubt including Mike Cowles) knew the real trouble: in striving valiantly for the unusual, Flair had had too little old-fashioned journalistic flair itself. In the trade the gossip was that Flair had lost upwards...