Word: gossipers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran who will almost certainly play his role again is tangle-haired Hans Zwink-Oberammergau's twinkling-eyed Judas. He is also Oberammergau's most unpopular man. Villagers resent Zwink's sense of humor and his philosophical detachment, gossip that he is touched in the head. But his most objectionable symptom seems to be his longtime anti-Naziism. When Hitler took over Germany in 1934 Zwink retired from village life and kept to his house, painting bad portraits and canvases of church interiors. A calendar portrait of Franklin Roosevelt hung on his wall throughout...
...author of this article had in mind to entertain Americans, he certainly met his aim. Magazines such as TIME are supposed to educate people rather than to relate "gossip"-this is the word used by the author-especially as gossip means lack of truth...
...TIME occasionally finds gossip informative and information entertaining...
Probably no newspaperman in history, and certainly no other gossip, has ever sold his words so dearly as Walter Winchell. Last week it was loudly proclaimed that the inflated price of his treetop chatter might go even higher...
While the scrubwoman wades slowly down the floor, first one and then another of the villagers drops in for late morning coffee and gossip. They build and believe fictions out of malice, lay plans that are monuments of self-deception, respond to reality, when it is forced on them, with shocked disbelief. The behavior of their feet, which have a vivid animal reality for the scrubwoman, often gives the lie to what they say. But the drama of physical reality that they create finally becomes so exciting that even the narrator is infected. "Despite myself and the progress I have...