Word: scuttlebutt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Paramount Pictures Inc. decided to film The Lost Weekend, the horrendous novel about a dipsomaniac, it also uncorked a stream of scuttlebutt. Tongues wagged that the liquor industry was trying to stop Paramount, had tried to buy it off with $2,000,000, etc. Last week, as the movie won the plaudits of critics & public, Seagram-Distillers Corp. added...
...Scuttlebutt reports that the Indianapolis ran into a minefield are ridiculed by Navy higher...
Charles A. Lindbergh's shooting role in the war ceased to be a scuttlebutt topic. A press association reported: Civilian Lindbergh, in 1944, as a technical adviser in the South Pacific, went out in a formation with Major Richard ("Dick") Bong. A Zero jumped them. Civilian Lindbergh fired one burst from the guns...
Autos to Sleepers. To the line-up of potential buyers of the Pullman Co.'s $80 million fleet of cars, scuttlebutt added the name of Detroit's auto body builders, the Fisher Brothers. The five vigorous Fishers, with an estimated $250 million to invest, are looking for good businesses to buy. They now own a big chunk of stock in Baldwin Locomotive Works, have an eye on Hudson Motor...
There has been only one reported instance of a Kamikaze pilot being found dressed in a ceremonial black silk robe (the scuttlebutt has enlarged on this to draw a picture of mass pre-suicide funeral ceremonies before the airmen take...