Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hearty Feed." But by last week Stassenites suddenly realized that they might be heading for a sharp comeuppance. Despite published polls, reports from district leaders and the gossip of professional politicos showed that shrewd old Henrik Shipstead had been retrieving ground fast, might even be edging ahead...
Justices fought each other by feeding their own accounts of the court's battles to newsmen and columnists, violating the confidences of the court and creating a flood of gossip. In fact, it was a leak to a columnist which had brought on Justice Jackson's blast...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt herself-dowager head of the Vanderbilts, portly queen of Manhattan society from way back, and now pushing 80-blossomed in the gossip columns as a heartthrob item. There had been nothing so sensational since she took to wearing hats after years of allegiance to a "headache band...
...bitter public gossip about banquets for a few while millions starved (TIME, May 6) echoed in China's Executive Yuan. Under Premier T. V. Soong, the Nanking Government ordered all civil servants to observe austerity. Items: no lavish gifts or ceremonies, no dancing. Those who enter taxi dancehalls or "any improper place" and those who "invite prostitutes or singsong girls to amuse them" would be fired...
Peter Arno, heavyweight cartoonist, denied a gossip-column report that he had been beaten up at a party by another guest (junior-size) of Horsewoman Elizabeth Altemus Whitney's in Warrenton, Va. Actually, said Arno, the little fellow just hit him in the back of the head with a rock. Knocked him cold. (Arno's friends told him about it.) Then somebody else beat up the rock-slinger...