Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...benches in the packed courtroom, Yvette's neighbors, members like herself of the tight, bored community of Army wives self-marooned in a strange land, looked on. Some brought their knitting. Others came with detective magazines. The trial was a relief from endless bridge lunches and snack-bar gossip fests. Only now & then did they pause to give the proceedings their full attention-on those three climactic moments, for instance, when Yvette, sobbing and hysterical, fainted dead away from the effects of a four-day hunger strike...
...chatty fashion of country weeklies everywhere, the Capac, Mich. Journal (circ. 750) noted last week that "Herbert Gottschalk is some improved," "Miss Vera Reynolds is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sharrad," and "Robert McCoy is driving a new Chevrolet." Along with this gossip about the placid life of the prosperous little farm community (pop. 1,200), was one item of more than ordinary interest: "Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Hunter have planned to hold open house for Noble Hunter, Sunday afternoon ... at their home, 209 Aldrich Avenue. Mr. Hunter will be 93 years of age Saturday...
Young Mary Pomfret and Philip Weatherby are office workers who are supposed to be in love but court each other as if they were filling out government forms. Instead of making love, they gossip about their scandalous parents, Widower Pomfret and Widow Weatherby, who had a torrid affair years back. Philip and Mary feel obliged to worry whether they may not be half brother and sister...
...chairman condemned not only "the substance, but also the methods and the motives," of Senator McCarthy's accusations. Straight claimed that McCarthy used FBI records which were filed "without reference to the truth" as source material for the charges. Much of the material, Straight stressed, was based on "malicious gossip" and "wild rumor...
Reston conceded that federal officials had their troubles, including the presence of official Soviet correspondents at their press conferences* and such domestic nuisances as "scoop artists, gossip mongers and saloon-rail journalists." But that had nothing to do with the case. "The people have to be adequately informed ... in spite of these problems, and the Government is not doing what it could to keep informing them...