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When Wade runs for governor a disgruntled underling (Thomas Jackson) threatens to expose his wife as the onetime mistress of Gambler Gallagher. When Gallagher coolly kills the would-be tattler, righteous District Attorney Wade gets him convicted, goes triumphantly to Albany as governor. Gallagher refuses his offer to commute the death sentence, marches grimly to the chair. Next day Governor Wade resigns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 14, 1934 | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

Philadelphians chortled as a chorus hoofer, picked for his amazing likeness to "Davy" (Edward of Wales), was heckled by imperious Helen Broderick as Queen Mary about amorous escapades on his South American tour which Her Majesty had picked up from Tabloid Tattler Walter Winchell. "Well, it was a nice moonlight night," stammered the hoofer. "... I remember we got to talking about Havelock Ellis and after that everything is blank." Meanwhile Leslie Adams as a too-stout George V leered, "I'll tell you what, Davy. We'll go to Bali-the Island of Bali-and stir up some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...Word. For more than 500 years The Word, the secret of the order, has been unviolated. However, observers suspect that The Word is no more than trade mathematics, as expressed in the title chosen by the 18th Century French Mathematician Gaspard Monge, no Freemason tattler, who wrote about "Descriptive Geometry, or the Art & Sciece of Masonic Symbolism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Masons | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...drinkers. Exclaimed Washington's Dry Senator Jones, author of the Five & Ten Law: "Certainly we ought to know where they [the 'loggers] were going in the office building." Senate Leader Watson spoke about "not guarding the morals of my fellow Senators." Iowa's Senator Brookhart, arch-tattler, shouted his determination of learning the S. O. B. customers of Cassidy and Goldberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: S. O. B. 'Leggers | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

Last week behind the Century Association's well-guarded doors there was more uncomfortable excitement, more nervous uneasiness, than any game of bridge ever produced. What disturbed the Association's calm was the fact that Iowa's Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart, social tattler, no Century member, had risen in the Senate to declare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Brookhart v. The Century | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

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