Word: nosey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What nationality? Maybe they were Swiss, Afghan or Bolivian, chortled the President, who presumably was aware that Canada has no submarines. Franklin Roosevelt then told his questioners not to get too nosey, left them to guess: 1) Why he could not say flatly that the sub marines were German, or 2) Why, if he lacked positive information, he said anything...
...editing was completed by Biographer Peter Quennell (Byron: The Years of Fame: The Private Letters of Princess Lieuen). Missing from the collection are any letters from Byron's half sister and mistress, Augusta Leigh, Lady Melbourne (see above) or Annabella Milbanke (Lady Byron). It adds little that the nosey world does not already know about the Byron legend, but it touches up some less known amusing episodes. Sample...
...splashiest and most exciting opening night in Federal Theatre history flocked jitterbugs, Nosey Parkers, Harlem, Cafe Society. To it also, with hands upon their apprehensive hearts, marched Gilbert & Sullivan diehards, to endure an hour and see injustice done. To it also-one of her rare first nights since her husband became President-went Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, brought the audience applauding to its feet as she sailed down the aisle...
Zippy comments like these on "People Who Matter'' have long been the highly marketable stock-in-trade of smart, nosey Inez Callaway Robb, who for the last ten years has been sticking pins into stuffed shirts as "Nancy Randolph'' of the world's biggest tabloid, Manhattan's daily News. This week blue-eyed Inez Robb, chic and peppy at 36 despite her greying hair, started on a brand new job as "roving reporter," covering U. S. and international high life for the rival New York Mirror and more than 100 other papers lined...
...Numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29, et ante). Mr. Hines was getting no more breaks than ambitious young Republican Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey could help. Highlight of the trial's third week was a detailed account of Defendant Hines's connections with the racket told by nosey State Witness George Weinberg...