Word: gossipping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day found seven Justices in their chairs ready for Senator Reed. "Freedom of the press," was the Senator's text. Any man can see the income tax list, can gossip to his neighbor about it, can broadcast it by radio-by what logic can a newspaper be restrained from publishing it? The Senator also reviewed the history of publicity legislation to prove that Congress had moved progressively-in 1913, 1915, 1916, 1918 and finally in 1924-towards complete tax publicity...
...Gossip...
...Ireland, she said, to bear his son. But the son never came. She wasted, thinking herself cursed and taken in adultery by this earthly marriage. When they did go back to Shanganagh, the old place lost its sweet peace, the ivies fell, the servants left. O'Malley took brandy. Gossip told him she had resumed her white, gone back. He foreswore his name and foreswore that gallant Irish fable: "The woman pays...
...have been hearing opera singers at the Metropolitan for a number of years. Also we have heard a great deal of petty gossip about them; back when Amato was greeted with favor, tongues were no kinder than they are today. Jean de Reszké had his enemies! So we are most interested to hear what you say about Caruso's "large paid claque." (TIME, Apr. 6.) Who, we ask, ever accused Caruso of a claque? We agree that, in his youth, Caruso loved Bronx Park, he was no moral stickler, he was fond of his spaghetti, his jokes...
...didn't know from Adam there was one way you could always make conversation, one platform on which you could always get together, and that was your huge relish of Copey's jokes. They passed around the college from tongue to tongue with the dizzy speed of village gossip. Copey's epigrams were, and are, the folklore of the college...