Word: gossipeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gossip columnists were annoying Rex (Henry VIII) Harrison and Actress Lilli Palmer, who is currently starring in the Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. "We never go anywhere alone any more," Harrison said. "Why, even if I go out to lunch with my mother, a story will show up that mother and I are going steady...
Three years ago Léon died. Local doctors certified his death as natural, but the gossip grew. After complaints by Marie's neighbors, the Ministry of the Interior finally decided to examine what was left of husband...
East Side, West Side (MGM) is a humorless, slightly awed look at Manhattan's gossip-column set as it might be presented to daytime radio fans. The picture makes a showcase for the specialties of its four glittering stars: Ava Gardner's blissfully pneumatic figure, James Mason's decadent inflections, some high-toned suffering by Barbara Stanwyck and the impulsive histrionics of Van Heflin...
...stories under fire appeared in "Private Lives," a semi-weekly gossip column, on December 14. On January 10 the notice of probation was printed on the front page of the paper...
...newspaperman's newspaper." Under Editor Dana, everything was exciting news: "A new kind of apple, a crying child on the curb, the exact weight of a candidate for President, the latest style in whiskers . . ." When people objected to the Sun's reporting of murder, scandal, gossip and graft, Dana tartly retorted: "I have always felt that whatever the Divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report." City Editor John Bogart's definition became even more famous: "When a man bites a dog, that is news." To gather and write the new "human interest...