Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington correspondents, gossip columnists, private tipsters of business, have all been trying to tell the public that the Government's organization-for-war has broken down badly. Last week one publicist, in a semiprivate newsletter, termed conditions "rotten." The fact was that men in high places, men of probity and passionate sincerity, close to the White House and in the President's confidence, were plainly and loudly telling each other that the war was being lost-not on the battlefronts but by Washington mismanagement...
Caesar's World is the world where cynicism is the last refuge of integrity. There the village druggist, to gain prestige, wedges himself between two fourth-rate party hacks and tries to muscle into the gossip. There, an old horse, forever paretically nodding yes-yes-yes, is named Plebiscite. There, the Fascist party's local orator, Don Coriolano, speaks for that "moderate" faith in God which priests "widely recommend...
...sweethearts to behave themselves. It asked Britain's 1,700,000 women factory workers not to write: "We dance with the men in our rest hour," suggested instead: "I should have enjoyed it so much more with you." It appealed to mothers and mothers-in-law not to gossip, decrying the excuse, "I think you ought to know. . . ." It bluntly explained: "We are not going to get men to fight with 100% heart if they feel their wives are unfaithful to them...
Twice in recent weeks ugly gossip ran up & down the wide and sunburned streets of Rome, Ga. (pop. 26,282): there had been what the white residents called "nigger trouble." A young Negro had sat in the white section on a bus, starting a row. Then word spread that a Negro preacher was saying that now, while white men and boys were away in the Army, was the time for Negroes to assert their rights...
...richest gossip of his time died last week. On his deathbed, fat, vain little Maury Henry Biddle Paul, "Cholly Knickerbocker" of the New York Journal-American, could well reflect that he had made himself more famous than most of the puppets he wrote about in his quarter century as a society reporter...