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Word: gossiper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House for a visit, New York Star Publisher Bartley Crum asked: "By the way, Mr. President, what exactly made you decide to run?" Glancing around the room, Harry Truman replied with a grin: "Where would I ever find another house like this?" This tidbit was reported by a gossip columnist last week. But by last week it was apparent that it would take more than wisecracks to keep Candidate Truman from househunting next winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No Surrender | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...about 7. I just eat a piece of bread for breakfast, then I carry some coffee upstairs, and paint. In the afternoon I take a nap so when evenings come and the young folks come in I can set up till midnight and listen. I love to hear the gossip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Grandma's Imaginings | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Husband & Wife Programs: "Cleverly blending commercials with gossip . . . the husband and wife mate the trite with the trivial and foal the drab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Foal the Drab | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...gravel-voiced Editor Jacquin Leonard Lait thrives on the pace that kills. Last month, when he began his eighth "annual stand-in stint" for Gossip Walter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hustling Hearstling | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Another patient was under the delusion that his mother had been murdered by a doctor. Now a gossip columnist, he is beginning to realize that his delusion is irrational. Sometimes just reading the paper* has helped. A paragraph in the June issue jibed: "To -- on Hall 7, are you still chasing spirits all over the place? Catch any?" Roused out of his seclusion by the taunt, the patient on Hall 7 explained to his doctor that he wasn't seeing ghosts as normal people think of them, but "seeing" the animosities of people he came into contact with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Power of the Press | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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