Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buzzed with rumors. The town of ornately painted, deep-eaved houses where G.I.s stroll, lounge and (officially) do not fraternize is Oberammergau, world-famed for its 300-year-old Passion Play. Of Oberammergau's 2,300 inhabitants, 700 are the saints, angels and Nazarenes of the awesome drama. Gossip wondered whether there would be a presentation of the Passion next year. Ticking off the names of former Pharisees and Apostles, citizens canvassed the possibilities the war had left...
...André Respond, anxious to hush up local gossip about Edda's high living, told the press: "Rumors that she escaped one night after her father's death and returned to the clinic intoxicated are absolutely untrue. Nevertheless, Madame Ciano occasionally does behave in a rather bizarre way. For instance, she likes to walk around barefoot like a gipsy and occasionally at night she will jump from her window into the garden for a stroll in the park and forest...
Rudyard Kipling); of a heart attack; in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire. In general agreement with Queen Mary on both morals and hats, she kept a firm, wifely hand in her husband's career (gossip credited her with much influence in forcing the abdication of Edward VIII...
With other old-school newspapermen, I have long resented the encroachment of "gossip columnists, hatchetmen, trained seals and freaks." . . . Every newspaperman is primarily and essentially a reporter. When he leaves facts to soar into the realm of rumor and gossip, he abandons his basic job and primary principle: accurate reporting of the news...
...United Nations Press Secretariat had handed out San Francisco credentials like tickets to a two-bit political clambake; accredited correspondents outnumbered delegates six to one. Legmen, pundits, gossip columnists, hatchetmen, trained seals and freaks-1,600 of them, all classified as newsmen-fought for seats in a press section big enough...