Word: gossipist
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Percival Harden, 54, sat down on a chair in a Manhattan hotel, put a pistol against his breast, killed himself. His lawyer & friends gave as the reason his grief at having to relinquish "his old interests." Then was it the duty of newspapers to report on the life of Gossipist Harden a report which read much like an oldtime Harden-published gossip paragraph-married first Maude Sullivan, Chicago artists' model; won $10,000 for alienation of affections from his friend, William T. Hoops, who later wed Maude Sullivan Harden; married (second) Mabel Doris Mercer, chorus girl, who divorced...
...late Gossipist Harden, Mabel Dons Mercer Kresge said (after their divorce): "My first husband was a delightful, worldly man. He was charming not only to me but unfortunately to every other woman he met. Naturally, that was unsettling...