Word: gossipers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undergraduate papers fall into two groups: the bulletin boards and the journals of opinion. The bulletin boards are harmless sheets packed full of college gossip. Criticism of the University is seldom ventured. The editorials exhort the students to Back the Team, warn freshmen of the evil consequences of Walking on the Grass, and advise the use of Better English...
...boardinghouse play with the usual wild collection of types that inhabit such a hostelry. Into its midst comes a tawdry and mysterious pair (male and female) from Paris. In the current newspapers are stories of a horrible bluebeard who has murdered some two score wives. The gossip group of the boarding house identify their bearded visitor with the villain. He turns out to be simply a cheap crook on his way to his girl's sanctuary in her native...
...principal character is a Miss Shoe, a birdlike spinster with insatiable appetite for gossip and detective work. For this part Jean Cadell, who played it first in London, was imported. She gave a fluttery, decisive and yet half frightened impersonation, which promptly included itself in the half dozen examples of the season's finest acting. Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne, as the fugitive couple, assisted with their usual eventful excellence...
...were subtracted, the total population of the nation would remain substantially intact. The proletariat remaining contains millions of city dwellers drawn largely from foreign lands, sunk at the bottom of the social scale, and intellectually nourished on simple tales of virtue and sordid tales of vice. These form their gossip, their excitement, their cultural horizon. It is the pictorial papers that have recently thrown this class into relief and emphasized its importance. Three pictorials have thriven in the city of New York with a scarcely perceptible intrusion into the circulation of the older dailies. They serve a new public whose...
Such tribute put to scorn newspaper gossip, which interpreted President Coolidge's action in appointing Carmi A. Thompson (TIME, April 12) to investigate the Islands as a thrust at the General...