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Word: gossips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President doing to get U.S. supplies to Britain? He was unquestionably making available as many ships as the U.S. could provide (see p. 75). But what was being done to insure the safe passage of those ships across the Atlantic? Last week the vast mass of inquiry, advice, speculation, gossip, rumor, on the part of pundits and editors boiled down to a series of questions and answers, with more questions than answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Patrols and Convoys | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Once in the fold, she acquires an aging socialite (Ian Hunter), a plush Park Avenue apartment, seven diamond bracelets, six fur coats, and the eye of the gossip columnists. In the end she dies of a brandy heart-but not before she has slunk, semiclad, through sumptuous extravaganzas that make the old Ziegfeld Follies look like the East Orange Passion Play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 5, 1941 | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...royal family. A prince who had been a member of the royal household told Whitaker: "The King is worse than gaga. He is a cynical, selfish, dirty old man. He cares nothing for Italy or the Italian people, but only for his own throne." Servants now repeat society gossip about the effeminacy of the Prince of Piedmont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Fall of Rome | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...Holmes wrote his last letter and last literary opinion to Pollock. Then to their 57-year-old correspondence he set this last line: "Is this enough of my gossip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Postman Rings Twice | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...temptation for any writer); the buzzing nightclubs ; the stragglers from Pasadena; the masculine-minded feminine population who even pay the checks; the trade-paper racket where you buy good reviews; the frightening bankers from New York who own the studios; the studio commissaries full of rumors and gossip ; the little houses along the beach where the underprivileged are as comfortable as the big shots in their Bel Air mansions. Only a few of these places and people get their right names, but the impression is still there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Harpooned | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

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