Word: gossiper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cleanup. Besides, it might not be necessary. According to Santiago gossip, González' anti-Communist action had already won the promise of a badly needed $40 million World Bank loan. Visiting U.S. industrialists, who have told González that they would be interested in investing in Chile if ever he got the best of his Commies, could watch the rapid climb of Chile's stockmarket last week and draw their own conclusions. Lota coal shares were up ten points in five days...
...Gossip Columnist Walter Winchell is always willing to give a great man his due. Last week he noted that "Demosthenes, apparently, was the W.W. of Athens." A friend of Winchell wrote the columnist that he was now being denounced as a warmonger, just as Demosthenes had been 2,300 years ago. To drive home this point, Winchell devoted a column to excerpts from Demosthenes' speeches to the Athenians against Philip of Macedon...
...targets countered with a $25,000 libel suit. Sheriff Meehan, a triple-chinned 200-pounder who likes to gobble ice cream by the quart, called Dilworth "an old gossip...
...first week Billy sounded like a not-too-assured mixture of Walter Winchell and the late Alexander Woollcott. He let his listeners in on his random thoughts, a bit of philosophy, some gossip. He did a little crusading for higher salaries for teachers. He told a yarn about World's Fair days, when J. Edgar Hoover put the finger on a gangster who was bothering Billy. He bemoaned all the big-time stars that he has been dope enough to pass...
...only a hope. The pension plan seemed doomed, and partly it was because of union politics. U.A.W. President Walter Reuther, an old enemy of Leonard's, was naturally jealous of the prestige which a pension plan might give his rival. So his henchmen, according to union gossip, quietly urged the plan's defeat. In this, they found themselves working with their arch enemies, the Communists. As long as they thought that Young Henry would not agree to pension, the Communists (who dominate Local 600) were for them. When Ford agreed to them, they turned against the whole business...