Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Strictly constructing, Presidents have every legal right to be stiffs. A goodly number of them have been. This unavoidable fact makes Presidential Anecdotes a rather remote relation to The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (1975), which roamed freely and often hilariously over centuries' worth of British biography and gossip. Historian Paul F. Boiler Jr. had to confine himself to the 39 Americans who, for better or worse, served among the acknowledged legislators of the world. Abraham Lincoln is here, but so, unavoidably, are James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren and Millard Fillmore...
...wind or rain. Prison leaders shout into the quiet darkness and their voices carry easily between the H-blocks separated by about 100 ft. The men are called "scorchers," an anglicization of the Gaelic word scairt, for shout, and they fill the air with orders and questions and plain gossip. Sometimes they conduct quiz shows, asking questions about entertainment figures, geography, history. When someone wins, a cheer rises in the blackness...
Modern media had discovered the power of the court, the entertainment value of the obscure doings in the shadowy marble chambers at the far end of Pennsylvania Avenue. The Justices became good television; the collection of gossip in the book The Brethren was worth big money on the publishing market. In singular fashion, the court was raised still higher on its public pedestal...
...stamina to hold the painful, blood-pumping poses for seconds that stretch and stretch. So he doesn't miss workouts, not ever, though it means spending less time with his family and his girl. And when he's at the gym, he sneers a little inside at those who gossip and horse around when they could be doing flys and bench presses and straight leg raises and squats. By the time he's done, he has to drive home in the right hand lane, at ten miles an hour. "I'm so gone, it's like after sex," he says...
Five subjects were traditional no-nos at English dinner parties: sex, politics, religion, illness and the servant problem. Now, according to the first book of etiquette published in Britain in more than 50 years, the forbidden list is down to two: malicious gossip and porn movies. Anything else can be discussed, even in "heated conversation," as long as guests have the wit to avoid the four dreadful icebreakers (Do you live in London? What do you do? Have you any children? Have you been abroad this year?). And if the soup is scorching hot, a guest should spit...