Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...greatest "cutter" all by the men who were there direct opposites. Music and a spread ended the festivities. Dartmouth being a temperance college nothing but water and lemonade was sued for the toasts, and all insinuation concerning three barrels of beer and mysterious cases which the outside gossip thought might contain wine are of course perfectly false...
...keep him from acting in this way in chapel, he ought at least to respect the feelings of those around him; and we hope that in the future those men who are in the habit of talking will be more considerate of their fellow students, and put off their gossip until after chapel...
...towns of West Saug and North Saug. It had its "prettiest girl in town;" its half a dozen churches, with the attendant meetings of the "Gleaners" every Wednesday afternoon; its church sociables, known among the Gentiles as "tea-fights" and "muffin-scrambles," and all the other necessary opportunities for gossip kindly provided by every such institution with "a vigorous religious life...
Mlle. Rhea, the French actress, is causing considerable talk and gossip in Rochester, N. Y., having broken her engagements with two managers...
There is so little besides study going on at Wellesley that gossip and groundless reports flourish finely. If it were not for concerts and lectures we should feel like the Sleepy Hollow people, yet without their contentment and repose...