Word: gossipers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That, according to court gossip, was the beginning of as determined a siege as has been laid these many years to the Holy Office, at the instance of a pair of brown eyes and two lips imperiously pouting...
They had Mattocks down from town again at once. Tristram's reason: to rebuke village prurience. Brenda's reason: Mattocks still needed her. Result: Mattocks improved and the prurience intensified. He began a canvas of great promise and a village gossip sent Wing an anonymous note, worded in newspaper clippings, that mentioned "adultery", "abominable lover", "disgusting wickedness". Mattocks finished his canvas?Brenda translated into landscape, unquestionably a masterpiece; and village roughs smashed it, flinging him into a creek as revenge for a fictitious attempt upon a girl...
...wish that straight news-legitimate news-were the only product which proceeds from Washington, but I know that it is not, just as you know it. The Capital is the great germinator of gossip and of scandalous whisperings regarding the great and the near great...
...Just where is the line to be drawn in printing news ? . . . For instance, a newspaper might for conscience' sake spare a man from the gossip of his neighbors concerning his financial inability, yet tear out his vitals by publishing the disgrace of a loved one. A woman's financial standing is held inviolate, but the same instrument which protects her name in that respect would not suppress her moral downfall if public record were made of the fact...
...current number of the Advocate, throughout a considerable amount of fiction, maintains an unusual degree of capability. The sketches range in theme from the intrigue of a sailor in Java to the gossip of ladies at afternoon bridge. The authors who have contributed these sketches write with assurance. They preserve an air of tried narrative skill; they expound both masculine and feminine character unabashed, as if experience sat lightly upon their shoulders, and no recess of human nature could resist the tolerant ease of their perceptions. Nor do they permit themselves any unduly meretricious display of mastery: restraint and directness...