Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon took to making sheep's eyes at a banker's beautiful daughter, and various serving girls. When they heard about the banker's daughter, the local party chieftains growled "Bourgeois behavior." Hertta was more worried about the servant girls. According to Helsinki gossip, it irked Hertta that so many working-class women should learn about the poor quality of Leino's lovemaking; that kind of talk could be bad for the party. Leino began to go into an eclipse anyway; he lost his job as Interior Minister, while Hertta kept getting more important -next...
Explosion? Haloid thought Xerography was just the thing to make the old but small company (its biggest net was $307,891 in 1941) a big one. Since June, when gossip about Xerography started, the price of Haloid's common stock has gone from 13½ to around...
...week's end, West Virginia state police reopened the Porter case, at the countess' request, and the courts were asked to seize Porter's records. Meanwhile Washington had another death to gossip about. Elizabeth Kenney Hynes, 50-year-old society editor of the Times-Herald, was found dead in her Georgetown home. Detectives found a bottle of sleeping tablets nearby, and her brother told the Washington Post that she had been despondent because Cissie Patterson had not kept a promise to "clear the mortgage" on her house. A preliminary autopsy report showed, however, that she died...
...into G.M.'s top spots to give G.M. new teeth for the coming dog-eat-dog competition in the automobile business. Furthermore, the team will be ready to take over completely when some of the older top executives, now close to the compulsory retirement age,* step down. (The gossip was that two or three of them would retire shortly...
...fiction editor of the New Yorker, he can make a room, a house, a whole town come to life without raising his voice. Nothing happens in Time Will Darken It that small-town readers won't immediately recognize as next-door truth, but what does happen (gossip, housework, dinner parties, childbearing) is conveyed sensitively, in clean and restrained prose. Time Will Darken It is often too loosely constructed, frequently lingers with characters who don't help the story along, but it weighs with considerable accuracy and tenderness the half-articulated impulses of disenchanted people who believe, with Author...