Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Harrison ("Sparrow") Robertson, veteran gossip columnist of the Paris Herald; at Bois-le-Roi, France...
...Washington, Eaton became acquainted-too well acquainted, some said-with Peggy O'Neale, daughter of an innkeeper, whose first husband apparently committed suicide while on naval duty in the Mediterranean. Partly to quiet gossip, Eaton married the "Gorgeous Hussy" in 1829. When President Andrew Jackson appointed Eaton Secretary of War, the furor of Washington society over Eaton's wife was such that the President's Cabinet fell apart. Later Eaton became Governor of Florida and Minister to Spain. After his death Peggy married an Italian dancing master who stole her money and eloped with her granddaughter...
...touchiness was the antiquated design and consequent destruction of the British battle cruiser Hood. The U.S. Alaskas will be more than half as big as the Hood (24,000 to 25,000 tons), have about the same speed (30 knots). According to published reports and Washington naval gossip (long since picked up by German and Japanese attaches), the Alaskas will have nine 12-in. guns in their main batteries (the Hood had eight 15-in.). They will be 700 ft. long (the Hood was 860 ft. long; the South Dakota's overall length...
...Nazi leader had been looking for an influential Briton to get the Government's ear for him, Dungavel was hardly the right address. The Duke was away on active service, and his prominence has come mostly in sporting papers and gossip columns...
...Actual blackmail for political ends by gathering discreditable information about the public and private lives of notables. "It is perfectly true that the Nazi political services comb the gossip columns . . . and a sterling anti-Nazi gossiper like Walter Winchell would probably be horrified if he knew the strategic uses to which some of his little scoops might...