Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco to Paris, but would rather live in his home town, Three Rivers, Mich. (pop. 6,710). Most of Chet's columns are as casual as any street-corner conversation: they concern a funeral, a backyard spat, an old gaffer's boyhood reminiscence, or plain cigar-store gossip. Sometimes he reports technological progress...
...city news bureau" in a loft over Wittenberg's newsstand. The floor is littered with years of overflow from his orange-crate "files," the whole scene dominated by a huge stove and a headless, female cigar-store Indian. There Chet pecks out "Doings," a paragraph of gossip for the local Commercial, and "straight stuff" for the Kalamazoo Gazette. Making his rounds, Chet is easy to spot: in winter by his coonskin hat and wolf coat, in summer by a flat fedora which he once had insured against fire, theft and collision...
Turning to Dean Acheson, Paul Shafer gleefully quoted some gossip from Manhattan's socialistic New Leader, concluded that if the $500 million Polish loan goes through, a million dollar fee would be paid to the Acheson law firm for its help...
...expected, a sudden wind of Marshall-for-President gossip whistled through Washington. But a shrewd Democratic politician put his finger on one major fact of U.S. politics. Said...
...headlines broke out on Marshall and Byrnes (see,NATIONAL AFFAIRS), gossip columnists rushed forward and took hasty bows. Some of the gossips (who predict a hatful of things, on the chance that a few will come to pass) had predicted long ago that Jimmy Byrnes would quit. In their self-adulation they missed a more exciting item: how a smart reporter had smoked out the season's biggest diplomatic story three days before...