Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gossip in Good Taste. The ablest U.S. disciple of Henry James and Edith Wharton in many a year is a 34-year-old Manhattan lawyer named Louis Auchincloss. His special world is inhabited by New York's oldest and richest families. He writes as an insider, and his tools are accuracy and compassion. But he takes his rich so much for granted that he never makes them a fraction as interesting as a wide-eyed outsider could, e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald or John O'Hara...
...with a career of idleness, Sybil is both intelligent and persuasive. What makes his story lose effect is a detached air that sometimes turns Sybil and her circle into people talked about rather than seen. For all its urbanity, Sybil winds up as not much more than fashionable gossip, well and truly gossiped...
...Railroad Heiress Marguerite Sawyer Hill. This set some local tongues wagging, since Host Davis had been sued by a New York salesman named Collins last autumn on the grounds that he had found Mrs. Hill and helped C. Blevins win her for his bride. The Trumans firmly ignored the gossip, went to the party, and seemed to have a fine time...
...respectable, cultured, well-behaved and poised, proud, quiet and refined, clean-minded, meek and immaculate, delicate, tender, bighearted, lovable, unselfish, unspoiled, generous and ambitious. I don't gossip, I'm not vengeful, don't gamble or drink, have rare dexterity, am supermundane, possess savoir faire. I'm perspicacious, perceptive, euphemistic, strong, healthy, idealistic, make my own clothes, hats and bags, do my own hair, cook and love music...
...Winchell first came in and pronounced it "the New Yorkiest place in town." Since then Winchell has always had his own table there, and uses the Stork as his night office. There, he has planned many of the crusades which have gradually promoted him in his own esteem from gossip reporter to the foremost champion of human rights. But last week the Champ was screaming as shrilly as the kind of drunken blonde that Billingsley never, never allows in his club. Walter had been accused of ignoring an act of "discrimination" * that was made no more than a table-hopper...