Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prominent as to necessitate a modification of the title in the French manner. But an author is subject to grave charges when he deliberately proportions his treatment to feature the sensational and erotic at the expense of the significant. More, it is impossible to determine what is gossip and what is historical fact, for his voluminous quotation of Napoleon's words is from many sources, varying in authenticity from soberest records to the completely apocryphal. Where Napoleon fails to leave words of moment on a weighty occasion, Ludwig soliloquizes for him. These is scarcely a clue to the authority...
...congratulate you? The five columns which you so generously devoted to my little home town, are yellower than Hearst at his best. As a matter of fact, you have out-Bonsfilsed Bonsfils-and that is a mighty hard thing to do-in old woman's gossip, and in exaggerated and distorted fact. . . . (DR.) JAMES A. COCHRAN...
...London, Viscountess Rhondda, feminist, business woman, editress (with Rebecca West and others) of Time and Tide (weekly), declared in an interview: "The 'smart set' is not a tiny fraction of society playing about in Mayfair. Every suburb and provincial city has its smart set now - its gossip of leisured, idle, irresponsible women. . . . They permeate society with the ideals of the harem. . . . Sex is their profession. So they put an enormous value on sex, on sex discussion and 'problems,' on the high importance of sex attraction. . . . They have become a menace...
...yellowest, some of the country's leading scarehead artists. They told them that their serv- ices for Publisher Hearst had been the height of probity compared to what they must do now. They must hell-rake kitchens and what passed in Denver then for boudoirs, for scandal and gossip of the most personal sort. Their gleanings they must then dress with language and emphases known only to habitues of a raucous young country's fleshpots. The stories were either published? blasting reputations?or brandished with a menace that brought forth, if not actual blackmail, the most servile acquiescence...
...berger and Producer Carlton, ingenious dances, Adelaide & Hughes abominable lines, stale humor! make it an uneven entertainment. Suggested by Deep River, it concerns a beautiful Louisiana nobody, whose romance is almost blasted by the rumor that she is a quadroon. In the last act, somebody says it is mere gossip. Song: "South Wind Is Calling." Tom Burke is the hero-tenor; Vivian Hart, newcomer, the joy of his stage life. Notable is a chorus of skeletons in radium-paint...