Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shortridge, U. S. Senator from California: "Mrs. Miles Poindexter, writer of Washington gossip, says that Senator McKinley (Illinois) and I are much sought after by the fair sex. I am married. So is the Senator from Illinois. 'Senatorial sheiks,' the headlines called...
...soup. A prose rhythm of unusual smoothness is discovered in an automobile advertisement. "The velvety clutch responds to the merest pressure. . . . The plant but positive gears engage silently". One nationally known electric firm prints well rounded essays to describe its product, and the Ann Sawyers and Well-Dressed Men gossip like Pepys and Evelyn...
...more interested in purely social gossip-the-ahem!- flittings of the stork and other such affairs. Zit's Weekly will keep you posted on matters town-topical with considerable frankness. And it runs a weekly column of " Greenwich Village Chatter " which every proprietor of a batik tearoom should read...
...Eugen Steinach, Viennese gland surgeon, in an interview with a foreign correspondent of The New York Evening Post, deplores the exaggerations of popular gossip, and disclaims the implication that his operation will necessarily " create a robust flapper of any wrinkled, decripit old lady." Notwithstanding, his clinic has become a Mecca for people from all parts of the world who feel the weight of years...
...gives us here a succession of little skeletons, grinning and staring. They are little not in their power but in Sir Harry's manner toward them. He is like a good-natured child playing with dynamite. Bitter, ironic outlines these, which are passed out as amiably as tea-table gossip...