Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your issue of Oct. 21, you discuss the Hearst gossip columnists of Los Angeles and San Francisco. You name Jack Lait Jr. as "Artie Angeleno" but you fail to give us the name of "Freddie Francisco...
...Conservative Telegraph's gossip columnist wistfully admired the slogan "Had enough? Vote Republican," and suggested that British Tories negotiate for the loan...
...made guitar-strumming motions). "Then we give you a chord - wham, you go into Tiger by yourself and we start giving you the beat" (The Duke demonstrated on the piano.) "Understand?" Django grinned enthusiastically. They jammed for five minutes, until one by one the band boys left their cards, gossip and naps to gather around, shout encouragement: "Go to it, master. Yah, yah, yah." Says Duke: "Django is all artist. Jazz isn't exactly the word for it. Jazz was that raggedy music they used to play about 1920. Nowadays, jazz must be classified according...
Worn but Sound. Dr. Mclntire's memoirs of these years is fiercely protective of his patient, generally devoid of spectacular revelations and gossip. "In writing of Teheran and Yalta," says Mclntire, "it has become the fixed habit of many editors and columnists to state without qualification that Franklin Roosevelt was a sick man, even a dying man." In fact, says Mclntire, he was "tired and worn" and underweight from overwork, but "organically sound" save for a chronic sinus condition. But once the rumors of his decrepitude had been noised around, Mclntire remarks bitterly, supporting evidence was fabricated...
...William Randolph Hearst had fallen hard for male society gossip columns...