Word: scuttlebutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast interest in maps, in geography, in the home states of all one's friends, especially California (one realizes the all-pervasive influence of said state's Chamber of Commerce when 94 out of 103 asked for it as a first choice . . . the high susceptibility to each crumb of Scuttlebutt, treasured cherished, passed tenderly from hand to hand . . . "I heard Mr. Ashler say, with may own ears" . . . "I know, but Mr. Hill told...
...accused Joe Curran of draft dodging. (Curran, married but childless, was deferred as an essential worker, i.e., labor leader.) But what most infuriated N.M.U.ers-who boil over at the mere mention of Pegler's sleeping-car first name-was the columnist's revival of the old scuttlebutt, repeatedly and officially denied, that U.S. merchant sailors mutinied at Guadalcanal...
Rumor flying around the yard has it that Irving Karess is joining the music world. Or is it just scuttlebutt that he has been lassoed by Natalie Liebowitz...
...August 14, Saturday: Deadline for Tuesday Scuttlebutt News...
...picnic had everything. Two mixed softball games, badminton, tennis matches, singing, and just sitting around on the porch and giving with "scuttlebutt." The boys and girls had supper, too, served by the Radcliffe's dining service, with coats split fifty-fifty...