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...Fair year after year, are its backbone. They bring their own tents and by some informal right of domain have title to their permanent tent platforms. Oldest of the oldsters form the elite along Grand Avenue. Newcomers live back in the hills on the dirt roads. They gossip endlessly, help each other with the cooking, washing, children. They are resourceful, warmhearted, commonplace and they are Iowa...
...monarch signed last week a fresh royal decree "suspending temporarily" the 40% gold coverage requirement in the decree of Dec. 21, 1927. They both felt so badly about this that the new decree was not published in the Italian Press, promptly stirred hornets' nests of gossip wherever Italians gathered...
...Weibel hoped that the baby would live, for newborn infants have tremendous vigor. This baby died two hours after delivery. Gossip soon ran through Vienna to the effect that it died because Dr. Weibel had paused for two minutes during the breakdown of the cinema camera. Bureaucrats in the Austrian Ministry of Education heard the talk. The State Secretary, Dr. Pernter, called Dr. Weibei to account. He explained that in eclampsia the child poisons the mother's blood and the mother's blood in turn poisons the child. In this case, said he, "autopsy next day showed conclusively...
That statement might have ended the matter, save for ulterior gossip because of which a special Governmental com-mission last week kept Dr. Weibel on tenterhooks. The rumor: Dr. Weibel is a Nazi, and therefore a menace to the Austrian Republic. The man who was supposed to be spreading such a tale: Dr. Weibel's assistant and camera-operator, Dr. Preissecker...
...Hyde's disgrace. For that ball Sherry's was made over by Stanford White as a reproduction of the court of Louis XVI; Réjane was imported from France to recite Racine; the floor of the supper-room was strewn with rose petals. Lehr made more gossip at the ball by refusing diamond-back terrapin and the finest wines, eating only hard-boiled eggs and drinking only cold milk...