Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...active. At night the blackout was complete-blacker than London ever had been. Most people dined at 5:30 and nobody went about after dark. In the beginning, sentries in the streets shot first and challenged afterwards. Kamaainas (long-settled whites) had to entertain themselves with card games and gossip at home in dim-lit, tightly-sealed rooms. No liquor was to be had, and candy sales went up with a rush. The hotspots-from the Royal Hawaiian to the plebeian Venice Cafe were shut tight. Overhead the air patrols constantly thundered...
...found last week, its ink faded, its paper crumbling, its plaintive little message flattened by the weight of 89 years. In company with 100 other letters which carried the appeals, hopes, fears and gossip of Americans long dead, it lay hidden between the attic joists of a 130-year-old Philadelphia house. There the mail robbers had retired to examine their loot, extract the money, toss the rest away...
...silversmith refused to make 40 tea sets because, while making one set was fun, making 40 sets would be hard work; 2) a lard seller in a village market refused to sell her whole pail of lard at once until she had had her fill of gossip...
...force Old Zup to resign, even offered him a $6,000-a-year pension. When he refused, they tried to have him ousted. Last summer, in a bitter showdown, Zuppke won over Athletic Director Wendell Wilson, head of the anti-Zuppke faction. Since then, it has been common campus gossip that the little Dutchman, his honor vindicated, would resign at this season...
...Jefferson), salesman, press agent, insurance executive, promoter of newspaper goodwill, Ohio-born Publisher Newman once published Fourth Estate (later sold to Editor & Publisher}, was organizer and first president of Columbia Broadcasting System, was the last publisher of defunct Judge. His latest publishing venture was the Senator, a Washington gossip magazine which piled up $84,000 debts in 27 issues...