Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sessions grew so long they were absorbing each other's entire half-day. Now Churchill lunches with the King one day a week, usually Thursday. Over grilled sole, or cold roast beef, washed down with whiskey and soda, the Prime Minister talks about the war, or the latest gossip of Downing Street. George VI and Churchill are gay and intimate friends, but Churchill does most of the talking. Churchill serves the King competently and with abiding respect, calls his monarch "Sir." The King, in his chats with Churchill, sometimes displays the British humor which lightens his otherwise grey...
...Recent Moscow gossip said Rokossovsky had been retired after the 1937 Army purge, returned to active service in 1941 after a plea to Stalin by Talent-scout Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov, Chief of Army Staff...
...South's newest anti-Negro canard, supplanting gossip of Eleanor Clubs and the subsequent Disappointment Clubs,* is the rumored organization by Detroit
...Trade gossip had it that one big reason Honest Harold lost out in PRC was because he had been asking the British too many questions about their vast oil reserves in the Middle East. Still another eye-popping Petroleum News report was that Franklin Roosevelt himself had thought of demanding a half interest for the U.S. in Britain's Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd. as a quid pro quo for lend-leased U.S. oil, but had backed down before Teheran...
...firecracker-chain of enthusiasms which would exhaust less magnificent mortals. For Dr. Martin, until malaria (contracted in Australia) returned him from the Army last spring, was one of the most happily energetic men in a community unexcelled, in certain fields, for tirelessness. And Louella, in giddiness as in gossip, is a mighty fortress...