Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the continental cafés, around the heated swimming pools, on the ski slopes, among the Hollywood stars and millionaires, the socialites and diplomats, the rich European refugees and playboys of Sun Valley, gossip was as thick as a blizzard in the Sawtooth Mountains...
...keynote of Mr. Welles' political program for the conference. already, even before formal proceedings have begun, nineteen of the twenty-one American republics have signified their eagerness or their willingness to comply with the desire of Washington, that hemisphere sever diplomatic relations with the Axis as a bloc. Hot gossip has it that the twentieth, Chile, will fall in line today or tomorrow or as soon as Mr. Welles can convince the Chileans that the United States has enough of a Pacific fleet to guard their protracted but unprotected coastline...
Last week, Stockholm reported Adolf Hitler had quit his Berchtesgaden hide away for the Moscow front, there to take personal command and starch the spines of his very weary warriors with an inspiring personal appearance. The obvious question-what can Germany do now?-had its usual gossip-born answers: a German turn to the south in an all-out effort to rid the Mediterranean of British power and avenge the Libyan defeats ; a German move against Turkey; German occupation of Spain, Portugal, an attack against Gibraltar; German assumption of the French Fleet, occupation of Dakar...
...rather than the Army's strategy. This had led to several open breaks between Adolf Hitler and the Army High Command. Adolf Hitler was protected by the presence of his Gestapo and Elite Guardsmen scattered throughout the Army. But his feud with the Army had become widespread gossip, not only in Germany, but elsewhere...
...while it was exciting to be a cause celebre. When pretty, honey-haired Teacher Isabelle Hallin was fired because of gossip that she had served cocktails to her high-school students (TIME, July 19, 1937), her neighbors in Saugus, Mass. signed petitions; students picketed her detractors' homes. She saw her picture splashed over the nation's front pages. Columnists glorified her. Out of the notoriety came a screen test-a chance to escape the humdrum life of a schoolmarm...