Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gossip of gossipy Cannes...
Scobie is incapable of wounding his wife by admitting his relations with the girl-and equally incapable of wounding the girl by breaking off their relations. To reassure his wife, who has heard the gossip, he receives Communion when he is in this state of mortal sin; and at last it is the same sense of enormous "responsibility" that makes him decide that suicide is preferable to his prolonging the two women's agony...
Hover gets yeoman assistance from the daily gossip columnists. On occasion, they have reported enough celebrities in Giro's to fill a large section of the Hollywood Bowl. Hover encourages these exaggerations by spending $125,000 a year to promote the legend that anyone seen at Giro's must, of necessity, be a member of Hollywood's higher echelons...
...York Times Book Review to write his first novel. On the strength of his name, an opening chapter and an outline of what was to come, his publishers had given him an unprecedented advance of $20,000. For all of three days (a long life for that kind of gossip), it was the talk of the trade...
...Gossip of a different kind was reported in the Hearst press. Mariella Lotti, an Italian movie actress allegedly long enamored of Michael but kept irom him by history ("war is contemptuous of love"), was reported seriously considering going into a nunnery. "Will she say to the world, farewell?" throbbed the New York Journal-American. "Will she take the last step and enter?" At week's end, neither she nor her press-agent was sure...