Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local citizens who can well afford to pay for garbage removal prefer to haul away the week's trash in their own Chevrolets, Thunderbirds, Chryslers and Volkswagens. Thus, on every Sunday morning gather old friends-and new acquaintances-who dump their stuff, then stay around to exchange gossip, renew friendships and, in a most delicate way, pick up a few worthy items discarded by their neighbors...
Writer Emmett Watson of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (circ. 196.955) had trouble built into his weekly column. While it read like a gossip column, it was actually an advertisement paid for by ten Seattle restaurants whose names Watson dropped among the items. Possibly because the column rested on that highly dubious journalistic base, Watson at times stretched a grin into a guffaw. "Three noted ex-cons are busy about town putting together a burglar-alarm system," he wrote one day in 1956. "The guy who installs it is an expert-served in three state prisons for a total of twelve...
...developed the most nearly trouble-free gadget yet devised by man. On an average, the telephone man has to repair a phone only once every two years. The party line, that inspiration of jokes and gossip, is all but gone. About 94% of U.S. telephones are now on the dial system, and 8,000,000 customers in 758 communities have direct distance dialing, which enables them to dial some 2,500 cities across the U.S. without going through an operator. This year Washington will become the first big Metropolitan area to have complete direct distance dialing...
...Press story, "Protecting the Source": the national press seems to have made a martyr of Marie Torre. An irresponsible press has no place in a nation founded on freedom, because a man is not free if he is not protected by law from the spreading of malicious gossip about himself. If the law did regard the relationship between a reporter and his source of information as confidential, what would protect the individual from being slandered by an irresponsible columnist who could disclaim responsibility lor his malicious actions by pleading "confidential relationship...
...night long the trial went on; 45 witnesses offered facts, hearsay, gossip. "This is the worst criminal in the world!" screamed Maria Jacinta Galvez Martinez. "He killed every member of the Argote family -my neighbors." Argelio Argote, 12, confirmed that Sosa Blanco "came and took my father away." A wrinkled woman named Tomasa Batista Castillo fought to get at the prisoner: "I begged you not to kill my husband, because of our eleven children. You said the rebels could raise them." A soldier of Sosa Blanco's said calmly that he had seen the prisoner shoot 17 defenseless farmers...