Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrival at the White House until the time of his election last November, hardly anyone could see Mr. Coolidge, even on private occasions, without noting that he was watchful of every action, of every word that might be reported directly or indirectly in print or in unprinted gossip. He was oppressed by the fact that he was in a delicate position. Literally overnight, he had been thrust into the presidency. He had to adjust himself, and he knew that he had barely 15 months, in which to show whether he was a misfit, or a fixture...
Dame Rumor has been busy of late assigning Memorial Hall to new uses, but she is such a gossip no one heeds her tales. All they serve to do is to point the question: "What is finally to become of Mem?" Those who hold her destiny in their keeping are still silent. Certain considerations, however, ought to influence the final disposition of the old hall...
...read a New York daily, The Outlook and my special publications in Science. TIME contains nothing of interest to me which I have not already seen. The first section of TIME, called "Mr. Coolidge's Week" (pardon me if I say it) sounds like the items of neighborhood gossip in a country newspaper...
...anticipations for this year's National Automobile Show (in Manhattan) were, a week or so ago, for a very usual exhibit. Barring minor gossip concerning changes in models and the likelihood of future prices, there was no news. Then suddenly a leading make of quality cars announced price reductions on closed cars ranging from $640 to $840 which would bring the prices of these models down to a level with those for open vehicles. Another make of quality cars adopted a similar policy...
...your feeling for Messrs. Canby and Sherman; on which you prefer as a critic and writer of stimulating editorials-for both write editorials and both are stimulating. Miss Anne Carroll Moore's survey of children's literature in Books is unusual and Isabel Patterson does the gossip, taking her place with Burton Rascoe, with Morley, with Benet, with the anonymous and changing Kenelm Digby. Whether or not these supplements survive, it is interesting and important that the public apparently wants them and wants, too, in large quantities the Book Review section of The New York Times, which...