Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backwoods 265 miles northwest of New Orleans. Flies buzzed behind drawn curtains. People walked slowly, kept to the shade of the great spreading oaks beneath which Edmund Kirby-Smith's rebel troops had marched in '64. It was a quiet week. There was a little gossip about a Negro named John Johnson, who had been lynched; but nothing the folks in Minden felt was really worth talking about...
Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho substituted for Columnist Leonard Lyons for a day, managed to fill a column despite a handicap. "To write a gossip column," he explained, "you have to be up and about among lively company. But I have been stuck in Washington for almost two years now and . . . talk is much more interesting in Pocatello...
...masterpiece unattributed. Last week, a 300-page abridgement of Vasari's Lives (edited by Betty Burroughs; Simon & Schuster; $3.75) let laymen in on some brisk reading that had previously been buried in a mass of scholarly detail. The new Lives were almost as easy going as a gossip column, and for much the same reason. Sample...
Other Soviet-style billingsgate: "Foulest of words . . . ancient and hackneyed gossip ... phantasmagoria of phrases . . . delirium of an impudent person . mercenary from head to heels . . . this savage . . . bandit . . depraved souls . . . product of the Stock Exchange and black market . . . scum. . . . How can you influence him? Such persons are not even beaten, so as not to stain one's hands...
...about three cents). For some of the postwar hopefuls, born of adversity, this meant the biggest crisis of all: they had survived the worst days of short newsprint when expenses were low and they did not need large (or too competent) staffs. Now the competition would be stiffer. Gossip was that at least six of the dailies would be lucky to survive the coming year...