Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Filipinos (who constitute 75% of its readers) are its stanch supporters. In a format resembling the Satevepost, it includes a capable foreign-news section, feature articles, political gossip, Washington correspondence...
...hedonist, will "do anything for a laugh-with me or at me." (Once, hard-pressed for a laugh, Elsa threw a banana peel on the stairs, laughed and laughed as she bounced black & blue to the bottom.) But one thing she drew the line at was writing a gossip column. So last week she turned columnist...
...worth of jewels with him; gave an Oriental carnival for the whole town of Nice which lasted a week, and every night banqueted a thousand guests. On every damsel who tickled his fancy he bestowed a handful of precious stones. In 1930, aged 32, Ahmad died of cirrhosis. Gossip said that he had a liver like an old Spanish saddle. Provision for eight wives was made in his will (executed by Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co.), but two more turned up whom he had apparently mislaid...
Next step was to confer, confer, confer. He saw nearly everyone even remotely connected with defense management; got bales of opinions, advice, ideas, tips, plain and fruity gossip. His regulated mind coldly assayed strengths and frailties, measured promise against performance. Night after night he trotted back to the calm of the White House, puzzled over his notes; through whole days read books, articles, memoranda. He tried to weigh objectives, ponder human values, disregard individual personalities. Finally he drew his conclusions, drafted three plans basically similar...
...week's end the report had not been confirmed, but in any case, Ukraine rains had been torrential for almost a month, and detailed descriptions poured through Europe's gossip centers of "an avalanche of unstemmed water, floating wreckage and drowned men, trees, livestock, and houses down to the delta." Berlin said that German artillery had foiled the blowup, but that "the swirling waters of the milewide, swamp-bordered river might have temporarily slowed the German advance." For the Russians it was a week of drainage. On boats, barges, tree trunks, rafts of boughs and oil drums, soldiers...