Word: gossipping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was always a new suspicious twist in the affairs of the carpenter, the fishermen, the doctor, the pompous Consul. And Oliver, swashbuckling sailor returned legless from a storm at sea, would no doubt lose his sweetheart to the steady carpenter. But Petra married Oliver in spite of the gossip, and bore five children. Of course the brown-eyed boys might belong to Consul Johnsen, wealthy shipper, and the youngest was no doubt fathered by the lynx-eyed Lawyer-but the Doctor, who fostered this gossip by certifying Oliver's sterility, bore a time-honored grudge against both shipper...
...polite tempest of gossip and denial that the great Earl of Birkenhead would resign as Secretary of State for India was finally stilled, last week, when he, burly, brilliant and socially lionized, despatched to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin a lengthy letter. Suave, it concluded: "The moment of parting is always sad. Your own personality has converted a Cabinet which assembled upon the crater of some bitter and recent memories into a band of brothers. I leave them and you with emotion and, if I may be allowed to say so, with affection."-Birkenhead...
...Great Frost: the new King celebrated his coronation with an ice carnival on the frozen Thames, and there Orlando fell passionately in love with a Muscovite Princess. His verse likened her to a pineapple, an emerald, a fox in the snow; and for weeks their bliss was the gossip of the icebound court. Then she jilted him, and he went into a trance...
Hollywood gossip, divorces and such...
...Weatherby, a portly widow with a sensuous passion for exotic religions, was flattered to receive them both one hot afternoon. Vain, she did not suspect that d'Astier came only to convert her wealth to the Church; and d'Orobelli to glean some gossip of Annie Spragg. Maundering, inaccurate, patronizing, Mrs. Weatherby said Annie had lived with her fanatic preacher brother at the edge of Winnebago Falls-her only companion a Hack goat, partner in her devilish Bacchanalian dances. That her father had been Cyrus Spragg, "the Prophet" in Illinois of a garish religion founded upon...