Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the first headlines blazed (and while Manhattan gossip columnists scrambled to assure their readers that they had known all about the romance for months), herds of reporters were dispatched to find an answer to the question: Who is Eva Sears? Hearst's Cholly Knickerbocker (Ghighi Cassini) haughtily announced that she was Mrs. Barbara Paul Sears of the fine old Philadelphia Pauls and thus a society girl of impeccable pedigree. He was wrong. Mrs. Sears was Cinderella, at least by all city-desk specifications...
...Kafka novel. The opera opens with Peter facing an inquest-indeed a trial-in the village hall. He has just returned from a fishing voyage with his boy apprentice dead. The inquest absolves him, but with sinister warnings that it had better not happen again, and the townspeople gossip about him. Peter rages: "Charges that no court has made will be shouted at my head . . . let me stand trial. Bring the accusers to the hall...
...fired him because he is the first German leader with the guts to tell the truth." Then the workman admitted that he had only the vaguest notion of what Semmler had said. A leader of the powerful Christian Social Union party sermonized: "This incident is proof that all gossip about freedom and democracy is false...
...same oath had often before been honored more in the breach than in the observance, and there were some in St. Moritz who thought the 1948 Olympic games would be the last. It was not simply the old sneering gossip about which amateur got paid how much, or the sometimes unequal struggle between sportsmanship and competitive spirit, intensified by national rivalries. There was a deeper and grimmer game afoot: for some "iron cur tain" countries, like Rumania and Yugoslavia, competition had become almost a matter of life & death; some athletes were nervous about going back home if they didn...
After a year of life, Pundit-Publisher David Lawrence's weekly World Report was still losing money. The rate, said office gossip, was $10,000 a week. Last week Lawrence merged the magazine with his weekly U.S. News. Lloyd Lehrbas, executive editor of World Report and onetime roving correspondent with the A.P., resigned. As many as possible of his 50 Report staffers, said Lawrence, would be absorbed by the merged newsmagazine...