Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...informed newspaper reader in the world. . . . The German press, of course, does not publish indiscriminately all the lies and reports cooked up by hostile propaganda. . . . We are not rushing the German newspaper reader from one nerve-racking sensation to another, we are not subjecting him to every stupid political gossip coming from the mouth of some hysterical person or from the pen of our enemies...
...more. In most cases (75% in cities and towns) the questions will be answered by the woman of the house. For refusing to answer, the penalty can be $100 fine or 60 days in jail. For intentionally giving false information, $500 or a year. For census takers who gossip: up to $2,000 fine, or five years in jail. Census dossiers are available to no one but the censusee and the Census Bureau. Reassuring note to balky censusees: "You're just a statistic...
...good German, gets his income from Germany and has four sons and eleven grandsons in the German Army. But an Allied victory might restore monarchy to what the peace treaty left of Germany. A monarchist coup in Germany and a subsequent deal with the Allies certainly would. Gossip in The Hague has it that Princess Hermine's estate in Silesia is the centre of a monarchist movement...
...Dove's former pupils, Judge Richard Peters: "He was a sarcastic and ill-tempered doggerelizer, who was but ironically Dove. . . ." One of his fellow tutors was Charles Thomson, later secretary of the First Continental Congress. Lodging with Schoolmaster Dove and his wife, Tutor Thomson heard them gossip so maliciously about their acquaintances that it scared him. When he moved away he got them to sign a statement that his conduct had been above reproach...
...month for a twelve-party country line, $3.75 monthly for unlimited service in town. For a $5 fee the company will call all of its subscribers, give them any merchant's sales talk. Its 15 "centrals" are pals with their customers, keep them in touch with local gossip. Subscribers grouse at the service and complain that the *Of the rest, 79% are Bell, some 3% mutual system is so lackadaisical about repairs that they frequently have to make them themselves. No less archaic is the company's pole policy. When poles blow down or rot away, line...