Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Babb went grey-thatched John M. Hancock, 67, Lehman Bros, partner, chairman of Chicago's Jewel Tea Co., crack corporate troubleshooter and longtime associate of Bernard Baruch. Franklin J. Lunding, 44, Jewel's president and a protégé of Hancock's who, according to gossip, had turned down the Lever presidency before it was offered to Babb, was made chairman of Lever's executive committee. Though Babb would run Lever, Hancock, Lunding and five others on the new board of directors would be looking over his shoulder...
Such bits of gossip are scarce, because the Soviet air force lives in strict seclusion; the bright blue shoulder boards of the Red airmen are seen only rarely by East zone Germans. Airmen and service troops are frequently moved from one airfield to another to prevent accurate estimates of their strength. There are also frequent exchanges of personnel between East Germany and the Soviet Union, so that as many pilots as possible may familiarize themselves with the terrain and weather conditions of Eastern and Central Europe...
...constantly meeting travelers who . . . are puzzled that Italians gossip in their churches, kiss behind a pillar, spit in the aisles . . . wheel a bicycle in one door and out another. These observers are equally shocked by the sight of unshaven friars with faces like pirates, begging nuns in the capital of Christendom, gaudy and grubby dolls, tinsel bambinos, baby Virgins and the like in lovely quattrocento churches cheek by jowl with exquisite sculpture; and when I say that I find these bambinos both horrible and funny, even this will probably shock; as if religion were not sometimes so funny that...
...Ambrose and Gregory.* But this did not stop Catholic Vienna from buzzing with speculation. Why did the chosen prelate feel "not worthy"? Some, including the Communist press, hinted that Monsignor Jachym was not completely in sympathy with the Vatican's militant antiCommunism. There was no confirmation of this gossip. Dr. Dorr reminded Viennese of Saints Ambrose and Gregory. "Only God knows what is in the soul of such a person in such an hour," said the rector. "It's not for us to judge but to respect the judgment of conscience...
Diaries & Scandals. Gossip plagued Richard until in self-defense he demanded a trial. His contention: there had been no baby, therefore there was no murder. By the time able Defense Attorney Patrick Henry got through with the state's witnesses, the jury was ready to believe that it must have been colic after all. Richard and Nancy were acquitted, but their trials & tribulations at the hands of Richard's vengeful wife were just beginning...