Word: gossipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foremen. The rule: "A good Party worker makes an excellent public servant." "It is amazing to me," roared Harry Hopkins, denying the charges in full, "that the Republican National Committee will permit Joe Grundy's henchmen in Pennsylvania to peddle their phoney affidavits and second-hand gossip. . . ." Sample Hopkins' refutation: In Delaware County, where Harry H. Ball implied that only Democrats could get supervising jobs, only 54% of 552 administrative and supervising employes are registered Democrats. Harry H. Ball, an active Republican, told friends he had been promised a job if he would make his affidavit...
...Song were sold. According to a myth as hollow as it was widespread, the composer was a condemned man awaiting execution in the death house of the Missouri or Texas or Oklahoma penitentiary. In Manhattan, around the all-night delicatessens where Broadway song pluggers and publishers gather for gossip and fun, it was always assumed that the composer was Vaudevillian Guy Massey, whose name had been attached to the published music since the song's appearance...
Thanks to TIME (Aug. 31), for expressing so well what we often have thought about gossip columnists of the Parsons type...
...functions. The relationship of Mrs. Merry to Irish Poet Tom Moore, the amours of Captain Zebulon Pike, discoverer of Pike's Peak, the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte to Betsy Patterson of Baltimore, the domestic difficulties of the French Minister, who frequently beat his wife-such topics dominated the gossip of a provincial capital that was growing too worldly for its own good...
...Dolly Gann in 1929. Peggy O'Neale's first marriage was to a Navy purser named John B. Timberlake, who committed suicide. The uproar started when the wives of other Cabinet members and Mrs. John C. Calhoun, wife of the Vice President, refused to receive her because gossip said she had been Secretary baton's mistress. The President defended Peggy, reorganized his Cabinet largely on her account. After John Eaton died in 1856, Peggy married an Italian dancing master. She soon divorced him, returned to the U. S., lived quietly in Washington until her death...