Word: gossipers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told, you give more information about our country, the rest of the world, science and the arts, to the cubic minute, than any paper I know, and give it in a form that I remember. You are to me like a keen, voluble neighbor with a gift for gathering gossip, but-with scarcely a vestige of breeding! After a dose of TIME I generally resort to the Manchester Weekly Guardian to counteract the effect. Those Guardian fellows are humorous and keen and . . . gentlemen...
...unfriendly magazine writers wrongly charge to prohibition scores of crimes and deplorable conditions; in any locality petty violations of the prohibition law can be greatly minimized if local sentiment expresses itself in prompt, constructive community action against them, rather than dissipating its energies in passive bewailing and garbled gossip...
...There! I never liked her," exclaims Menelaus. "I'm shocked, but not surprised. . . . But after all it may be only gossip...
...ordinary person, whether in this country, or Great Britain, can gossip authentically only about the mediocre people he knows; and, while it is enjoyable, his soul yearns for something more aristocratic. This thirst after coronets has been the cause of Mr. Michael Ariens present prosperity. And, for that matter, he did well enough with imaginary peers and Honorables; but the real inside story of genuine dukes and prime ministers leaves such vapid tales absolutely nowhere. Even the "gentleman with a duster" and Margot Asquith have not sated the public's taste for what the Duke of Devonshire said when...
...Gossip is now saying . that the Prince of Wales will next year marry Princess Margaret of Greece...