Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surviving witness in the trial was reported last week. Maid Bridget Sullivan, who died in Butte, testified that when she came upon Miss Lizzie shortly after the murders, her hair was in order and there were no bloodstains on her dress. That testimony helped clear Lizzie Borden-even though gossip about her never died, living on in a well-known jingle...
...trilogy. Finished by his wife Katherine, Parris Mitchell of Kings Row (the Literary Guild selection for May) carries the story through World War I, continues with unimaginative tolerance a chronicle of everyday good & evil that readers of the first book will welcome as they would a return to interrupted gossip...
...this time, the story had reached the Washington gossip-go-round and various letters-to-the-editor pages of papers in New York and Chicago-and the figure cited as that which Roper had given to Luce who had given it back to Roper who in turn gave it back to Luce who finally was alleged to have buried it in FORTUNE'S "secret" files...
Johnny Presents. With an ear cupped to tobacco trade gossip-which had Philip Morris' sales slipping-President Alfred E. Lyon gave out a preliminary report of the 1947-48 fiscal year. Both gross and unit sales were up over the preceding year, said Al Lyon, thanks to a sharp increase in the last two months (last year's gross...
...Safe Faces. Such restrictions limit stories almost entirely to three types: 1) a wife's (or husband's, or sister's, or laundress') eye view of how the popular favorite "really lives"; 2) the shopgirl-to-star Cinderella story; 3) discreet gossip-usually handled (for up to $1,000 a story) by Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Sidney Skolsky or some other expert big enough to flout studio censorship...