Word: tidbit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more popular than Bob Hope and Kate Smith; 65% of the men and 73% of the women who read the Minneapolis Star-Journal never miss his column, "In This Corner." They send him gifts, words of comfort when he is ill and many a hot news tip. One gossipy tidbit was almost too informative. In 1937 Cedric said: "A prominent labor leader . . . will be 'taken for a ride' within two weeks." Ten days later, a union official was murdered...
...tidbit level, the diary does better. Ciano says that Ribbentrop bet him a collection of antique arms against an Italian painting that Britain and France would not go to war if Germany invaded Poland. (Ribbentrop never paid up.) Ciano identifies Adolf Hitler's mistress during the summer of 1939 as one Sigrid von Lappus, and describes her as having "beautiful quiet eyes, regular features and a magnificent body...
...Motivations. The meeting was confidential, but, as usual, it leaked. During it, Secretary Hull, worn, harassed, irascible, complained at great length about his "damned detractors" of the press and radio. He let drop one tidbit of news: he had taken a plan for the future of Germany to Moscow, but it had been ruled off the conference agenda even though Eden and Litvinoff personally thought it was fine. But mostly old Mr. Hull harped on what are now clearly the two prime motivations of U.S. foreign policy...
Berg, his curve ball working to perfection and his change of pace a tantalizing tidbit, set the Guardsmen down with just three hits, no two of which came in the same inning. The first Boston safety came in the fifth inning...
...connoisseurs of Ickes-hating, the announcement was a particularly choice tidbit, iridescent with proof that the oil shortage had existed only in Mr. Ickes' mind. Ickes' assistants philosophically reminded themselves of what they had said all along: that if they succeeded in averting a shortage, they would forever be damned because no shortage arrived...