Word: gossipping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles A. Lindbergh? Putnam, ($2.50). This book has been the subject of much gossip. At first, it was erroneously reputed to be an expansion of Colonel Lindbergh's signed articles in the New York Times. Its publication date was delayed nearly a month. Skeptics said that the author-aviator was having disagreements with his publishers...
...words. It is beyond my comprehension how people can get enjoyment out of a magazine that is so daring and does nothing but criticize the things that should receive encouragement. While your news items are interesting, they are written in such a way that they become cheap bits of gossip. Instead of calling your magazine TIME, I would suggest you call the paper Gossip. If I should read anything in your paper that would receive a kindly comment, I think I would drop dead. If you are contemplating giving anything a friendly and helpful comment, do let me know...
...know spiritual certitudes are due to intuition and not to learning. As for fundamentalism, I read the Bible like I eat fish-leave the bones and eat the flesh.-¶Elmer Gantry (Sinclair Lewis' carping at evangelicanism) "represents a huge ocean of mud" contains "barnyard piffle" and "garage gossip." ¶ Of tolerance: "It is up to us to show the Jews what we mean by properly living our own religion, showing them that we have a better one than they...
...SmallTown Gossip...
...July 4) a little mud to throw at Col. Charles Lindbergh in your discussion of his "signed" story, classing him with Peaches Browning and Ruth Snyder. If your attitude toward him hadn't been clear before, it is now. Your petty article reminds one of the small-town gossip whose chief joy lies in muddying some clean name in the neighborhood. I have concluded that "readableness, interest," to quote one of your own apologies, is your chief standard...