Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late as 1890, the word "privacy" did not occur in legal literature. In that year a socially prominent young Boston lawyer named Samuel D. Warren took offense at a local gossip sheet that had assiduously reported on every party that he and his wife gave, and they gave many. With a colleague, the young Louis Brandeis, he wrote an article for the Harvard Law Review that first enunciated "The Right to Privacy." The authors' key point, which Brandeis re-emphasized later from the Supreme Court bench: "The right to life has come to mean the right to enjoy life...
...some, like Maurice Belanger, assistant professor of education, attacked the write-ups. "I see no hope for a significant dialogue based on cult, gush, and gossip," Belanger wrote. Strangely enough, his write-up was the most flattering in the booklet...
...years as Harlem preacher and U.S. Congressman, Adam has consumed a good many apples. So after the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 57, told a group of friends that he'll be peeling off from his third wife, Yvette Diago Powell, 35, the newspapers were full of the gossip that the preacher would be marrying Corrine Annette Huff, 25, a onetime Miss Ohio who was the first Negro to compete in the Miss U.S.A. contest. "Absolutely untrue," fumed Adam when the story caught up with him on a European junket. Having thus squelched the item, he flew...
...Louis XIV, in 1687, it was a delight in pink and green Languedoc marble and, for all its 70 rooms, was considered intimate by a King's standards at that time. Even royal princes had to ask permission to visit. "Delicious gardens!" exclaimed that great collector of court gossip, the Duc de Saint-Simon. And in Louis XIV's day, the gardens did not stop at the doors; his mistress, Madame de Maintenon, liked to change color and perfume by rearranging the Trianon's million flower pots daily...
...long ago she finished a farce with Rock Hudson called Blindfold. Everyone's eyes were wide open in Manhattan, when Claudia arrived to flack for the picture and offer learned comments right from the bosom. "It's not the only thing any more," she demurely told Broadway Gossip Earl Wilson. "You used to look only at the bosom. Now you look at the legs, the body, the whole girl...