Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Have the 177 planes the Army took over from the nation's airlines been used to full advantage? For months, in the airlines themselves, there has been a propwash of gossip that the commandeered planes are actually idle, and are rusting away in Army hangars...
...Diverted 2,000,000 syndicated readers with This New York, his weekly column of snooty glamor gossip...
...Lonergan case, born in a palace, died in an alley. Its climax: estranged Husband Lonergan, who had fled to Toronto and been brought back by plane, had pulled the job. It took no Sherlock Holmes to untangle a crime whose tawdry details petered out into unprintable and nearly unprintable gossip...
...Hero, Roads to Glory) were contributions to it. And though he condemns it in The Duke its lingering traces poison his biography with a wit which seems studied and dutiful, a shamefacedness before an unequivocal salute to a great man, and a hesitancy in striking out the dull gossip and malice. Only in his last chapters does Richard Aldington drop the irrelevancies of sophisticated comment and let himself go in praise of the "distant but steady beacon of common sense" whose simple words and direct actions glow through his book as they did through the anguished Europe of Wellington...
...Days of Anger covers the years from 1924 to 1927. They are three of the quietest years in the history of the battling O'Neill clan. There is almost none of the shillelagh-shaking, back-alley bickering, front-step gossip that gives Farrell novels their authentic Celtic charm. Reason: 1 ) age and death are taming and weeding out the O'Neills; 2) Danny is growing away from his feckless family, and Novelist Farrell is busy recording the long, long thoughts of a sensitive boy in Chicago's frustrating South Side. In this book Danny works...