Word: gossipping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gossip is mere tittle-tattle, does not spread very much. Rumor I regard as something that grows, that spreads, that comes so it is repeated not by idle tittle-tales, but by responsible people who may not know?and in this case no one professed to know what the facts were, but the rumor passed on. It was a substantial rumor." Thus did Frank A. Vanderlip, retired banker, describe rumor before the Senate Committee on Public Lands...
...thing that I do know," he said in his testimony, "was the fact that this rumor, and that it was a rumor, rose far above gossip; it was current in New York. You heard it on the train. It was becoming current throughout the country that there was such a story. It was something rivalling the importance of the whispered campaign that there was in the last month before Mr. Harding's election, and I believed that out of respect to his memory that thing should be brought up to close scrutiny, and the scandal, if it is a scandal...
What is this book? Gossip. Gossip about the wives, homes and eccentricities of officials and statesmen. It is eminently a book for serious-minded people. To the trifler and the gossip it is merely a few hours' diversion, such as they can manufacture less cleverly and without so "big" names in their own drawing-rooms. To the truly serious-minded man it is a treasury in which he can dig for nuggets of personality and little keys that unlock great doors of understanding...
...proverbial Eve tasted the apple, the notorious human race has been noted, for its egregious curiosity. Men in high places have suffered most from the consequences of Eve's sin. Therefore it is an ever-renewing joy when a new issue of the Congressional Directory appears, carrying the gossip which the great legislators write about themselves in their official autobiographical sketches...
...quarrel over the succession to the Russian Throne was settled in a family council of the Romanovs held in Paris. According to Grand Duke Alexander, the meetings of the family were called to end once and for all the gossip about discord and distrust existing between members of the House of Romanov...