Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bringing less and less unless they patronize the black market. Reason: prices will go up to counteract the fall in value of local currency. Only in Switzerland will the tourist escape that danger. But there he may have to face another which will have the same effect. There was gossip that Switzerland would revalue its franc, raising it from 23.40 U.S. cents to 30 cents. This would automatically boost prices to tourists nearly...
Dadswell's roving is the current phase of an old restlessness. He was 16 when he broke in as a columnist ("Village Gossip by the Boy Reporter") on the old Chicago American. Two years later he scooped the U.S. press when he interviewed Bandit Pancho Villa in Mexico. Since then, on a dozen different papers, he has been in every newspaper slot from reporter to publisher-editor, with time out as photographer, newsreel cameraman, and front man for circuses...
There was no truth, said both sides, to gossip that T.W.A. was going to sell out to Pan American Airways. But it was true that T.W.A. was sounding out the RFC and private banks for a whopping loan...
...afternoon papers about Chip Gannon in particular and the Harvard football team in general, both of which met with speedy and heated denials from the persons concerned, are merely further exhibition of Hub sports writing that could be labelled most generously as "colorful." A more accurate appellation might be 'gossip-mongering," but that's not a pretty phrase...
Harvardman Merwin knows the value of gossip for a farmland paper (two-thirds of the Pantagraph's circulation is outside of Bloomington-pop. 34,000), keeps 95 reporters, mostly women, feeding it in from as many Illinois small towns. But his local reporting doesn't stop with box socials and births. He once used the Pantagraph to promote one of the best art shows ever held in the Midwest, proved that Illinois farmers by the thousand would pay two bits to see an El Greco...