Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...playing cannot long be covered up. The "fans" who crowd the stands in the ball parks are experts in the strategy and the technique of the game. They cannot be fooled in the long run. No dishonest scheme could long escape detention. It is significant in this connection that gossip was busy soon after the games in question were played, and it was a case where the smoke of gossip was followed by the discovery of the fire...
...most entertaining picture of the provincial Spaniard's attitude on politics and on women. In the first act the many persons in the play are introduced and characterized by the quips and retorts about the tables at a cafe in Moraleda. Don Rosendo, the source of all current gossip, here gives us sidelights on all the notable characters in town...
...country on to demand an end to the deadlock. In his criticism he has shown the greatest discretion in realizing that anything he might say to our discredit would soon be multiplied a hundred-fold. For nations are very much like individuals who do not understand each other, and gossip soon kindles into libel and hatred. By applying the highest principles of individual to national morality, Lord Grey has set a precedent which makes permanent peace less an idealist's dream...