Word: gossipping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...previously the Right Honorable and irrepressible "Galloper Smith" of the House of Commons, could scarcely have been unaware last week, that his elder daughter, Lady Eleanor Smith, had so far departed from the family tradition of wit as to pen for a London newspaper the following bit of groveling gossip: "A friend of mine has just had installed a type of bath tub which will permit her to receive guests of both sexes while bathing. . . . The bath has a gorgeously all-concealing top. . . . She has already given a preliminary party at which I was not present...
...come with their money and changed it all around. The spontaneity of pre-War night-life has vanished. In its place flourishes a synthetic performance designed chiefly to catch the pound and the dollar. All of which constitutes practically a minimum in the way of news. There is some gossip in the book which will moderately interest the denizens of the Ritz (Cambon side...
...Beside Mr. Lowden at the game, with fur-lined overcoat and grey fedora to match Mr. Lowden's, sat his guest and good friend, Vice President Dawes. Gossip has said that Vice President Dawes, who has been encouraging the Lowden boom, would inherit the Lowden delegates when the Lowden boom collapses. Gossip has even said that the friends have an understanding to this effect. But Vice President Dawes has roundly denied that eh would utilize his friend as a stalking horse...
...Stairs. A melancholy play by Rosso di San Secondo, Italian dramatist, does not impress. Reared on the rueful abstraction that revenge reaps no pleasure for the revenger, it seems lifeless. The stairs of the title ramble upward through a tenement house. The gossip and the touseled details of life finally converge in the room where lives a woman. No prostitute, she turns out to be the deserted wife of the cruel landlord. The cast is adequate...
Every innuendo is tabulated, annotated, put with the other conversational flotsam between board covers. The gossip about Henry Ward Beecher's liaison, the lady friend of the Man in the Iron Mask, the other life of Carlyle. All the things that were tongue transmitted because the tabloid was not yet. Louis VIII and Roosevelt ... Francis Joseph and Lord Northcliffe ... Joan of Arc and Jesse James ... all that was said by lips behind a gloved hand or an outspread fan. Why Victoria sent the young officer into the India service, the life and times of the President's Daughter, who paid...