Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rare detachment: he is able to write knowledgeably about De Gaulle while avoiding both the admiration of a follower and the jealousy of an opponent. The King and His Court resembles the Duc de Saint-Simson's colorful Memoirs about life with Louis XIV, full of sympathy and gossip, yet it retains the ironical view-point of a journalist somewhat skeptical about De Gaulle's lofty designs...
Washington was filled with such wisecracks last week, mostly as a result of President Johnson's failure to name Humphrey to the official U.S. delegation attending the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. Johnson himself was obviously smarting about the gossip that he and his Vice President are not getting along. Asked about the Churchill funeral at his press conference, he reacted petulantly...
When President Johnson fell ill, it was "an upper respiratory infection." Last week, as more Washington bigwigs fell prey to swarming viruses, Washington gossip dubbed the disease "executive flu" and blamed its spread on too many people being crammed into tight spaces-such as the White House dance floor. To most victims, the trouble remains an unglorified bad cold. By any name, and of whatever severity, it is still a mystery...
...been widely reported are not coming to court with a wholly open mind." The Times, on the other hand, demurred. To bar the press from arraignments, it said, would only prevent publication of a "fair and accurate summary of evidence"; it would not control the "distorted and half-understood gossip" that leaks from all such proceedings...
...Kennedy has been treated to this sort of gratuitous attention from the fan and gossip-mongering magazines before. Two years ago, a rash of equally meretricious cover stories popped up on newsstands. One of the articles ruefully confessed that Jackie Kennedy hated Hollywood. If she didn't then, she has every reason...