Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ethiopian script not before known to have existed, and in discovering such facts as that the Ethiopian rulers were all men contrary to the current beliefs has made himself an authority who must be consulted by all students of ancient African history. Tea-table tete-a-tetes may gossip of the Valley of the Kings, but scholars in universities from Heidelberg to California will speak with gratitude of the work in Ethiopia...
...that of her versatile husband. George Kaufman and Marc Connolly, too, are usually here; and John Peter Toohy, press agent, author of a novel and of plays. Of such is "The Round Table." Otherwise at the Algonquin: The Rascoes, Hazel and Burton-Burton, a nervous, slender figure, vigorously collecting gossip for his column in the Sunday Tribune; Carl Van Vechten, imposing, with white hair and youthful face, bitter with his tongue, clever with the somewhat too facile pen which gave to his Peter Whiffle more charm than power or plan, is here, and with him, perhaps, his wife, Fania Marinoff...
Many readers, no doubt, will miss the sentiment and sensationalism to which their newspapers have accustomed them. The "human-interest" not cannot be expected; gossip, opinion, personalities would all be out of place. But among those who are tired of searching through huge areas of filler and advertising for the solid kernel of fact, there exists a real need for "Time". If its sponsors remain content to satisfy this group, "Time" will perform a good service...
...Versailles treaty. There is even less difficulty in stirring up trouble intentionally. Headlines can always be written to read two ways, a report can be garbled, and emphasis can be put on the wrong phrase. The result,--the product of exaggeration and misrepresentation.--will furnish sporting columns with gossip for a fortnight, but it is unlikely to accomplish anything else. The cry of "Wolf! Wolf!" has been raised too often. The relations between Harvard. Princeton, and Yale are too firmly established to lead any one of them to jump at newspaper alarums...
...these is Mr. Philip Kerr, former secretary to Lloyd George, who speaks tonight at the Union. He is not here to fill up his audience with gossip at the expense of his former superior. As an active observer at the Versailles Peace Conference, and as editor of the "Round Table", Mr. Kerr has been in close touch with European conditions and has had an influential part in shaping the policies which have determined the official British attitude...