Word: tattler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could keep track of all the couples who had met and married at the G, but everyone knew one of the reasons for the blossoming romances: the Tattler, the house newspaper that treated everyone as an enticement. When Canadian Novelist Mordecai Richler visited what he called "Disneyland with knishes," he remembered how, thanks to the paper, "the painfully shy old maid and the flat-chested girl and the good-natured lump" were transformed into "sparkling, captivating" Barbara; Ida, the "fun-loving frolicker"; and Miriam, a "charm-laden lass who makes a visit to table 20 F a must...
...trendy column "The Ear" was only into its second week after shifting from the defunct Washington Star, quoted unidentified "close pals" of Rosalynn Carter as saying that Blair House, where Ronald and Nancy Reagan had stayed in preInauguration visits to Washington, "was bugged" at that time. "At least one tattler in the Carter tribe," wrote McClellan, "has described listening in to the tape itself." The item concluded: "Stay tuned, uh, whoever's listening...
...syndication in 450 newspapers. But it seemed that the wag had tailed the dogged daily routine too long. Says he: "I would like to work end to end on something." Though he plans to spend more time on Shoe and the featherbrained journalists who work for the Treetops Tattler Tribune, MacNelly is hardly going out on a limb: started less than four years ago, the strip is already syndicated in 650 newspapers...