Word: gossipping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clear-eyed ascetic-looking Manhattanite, who used to be a Christian minister, but left the pulpit for the press (The World Tomorrow, pacifist monthly). Perennially a candidate for something or other, perennially defeated, Mr. Thomas, happy champion of lost causes, was "mentioned for the Presidency" in the pre-convention gossip. So was Pennsylvania's Maurer...
...spacious hotel suite of Henry Ford (TIME, April 16). Royalty & Fords met before the cozy country hearth of famed Viscountess Astor at Cliveden, 20 miles from London. She, vivacious, hospitable, bred in Virginia, but now a British peeress and M. P., seemed the ideal international hostess. Gossip told that the conversation of Her Majesty and Mrs. Ford was at all times stately, that the men eventually shared a chuckle...
...months more and more (now about 100) A. & P. stores have opened fresh meat departments. They are perhaps Armour & Co.'s greatest customers. On that account when a group of Chicago and Manhattan bankers and brokers a fortnight ago bought 1,000,000 Armour & Co. shares, Wall Street gossip said that A. & P. would get the shares. This was denied...
...Gossip even says that Mrs. Coolidge does not go out at night now because she does not wish to accompany the President. The truth, however, is that Mrs. Coolidge's attack of grippe so weakened her that she is forced to be most careful and eschew night-time visiting...
...Gossip of the week among the publishers includes the interesting item that Lytton Strachey is reported to be considering Queen Elizabeth and her period for his next work. Remembering "Eminent Victorians", we feel constrained to admit our interest and express the hope that the report is not without basis...