Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic Club of New York City, of which the 1,700 members, like their civic sisters the country over, are dedicated to making politics "cleaner" and more reasonable, tried lately to elect a president. A Mrs. John Marshall Gallagher was a candidate. A Mrs. Hanna V. Imhof-despite gossip that she had said she would not have the presidency, even "on a silver platter"-was another...
...Norris, was called in to arbitrate, and a re-ballot caused by her stood Gallagher 4, Imhof 1. "Intimidation," cried Imhofians. Justice Norris, they said, was too friendly with Mrs. Gallagher. Justice Norris denied the charge "as God is my judge." To which Mrs. Imhof retorted: "It is common gossip that she is politically ambitious...
Lamed in his right shoulder by a motor smash, an attack of neuritis and overmuch work, Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra departed his audience last week for an 18-month vacation. It was the end of his 15th season in the city of old families and new gossip. The auditorium crashed with more than perfunctory hand-clapping...
Last week in Richmond, Va., chemists from all over the U. S. gathered at the convention of the American Chemical Society to gossip, talk shop, exchange news of knowledge gained in research and experiment. To these scientists in their meetings, many a talk was made, many a learned paper was read, including...
Trivia are all these; of such trivia was last week's news compiled. But newspaper publishers tremble to think now soon their vaunted circulations would fade away if there were no trivia to intrigue the eyes of gossip-hungry readers. And last week's trivia were the more remarkable in that the sole value lay in echoes. There were echoes of old scandal, old romance, of famed names. Or, perhaps, they were more like bones than echoes, musty bones dug up by the professional gravediggers of the press for the wayfaring reader, who might cry "Alas, poor Yorick...