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...chancellor of the University of Mississippi saw that Bilbo had three square meals a day. Released after ten days, Bilbo walked out of jail, climbed up on the back of a wagon, announced his second candidacy for the Governorship. During this campaign he took cognizance of State-wide gossip about his sex life. To a female audience The Man Bilbo cried: ''If these stories about The Man Bilbo are true, you've got to admit, Sisters...
Lady Jane Kingdom (Frances Starr) runs her gardens, chickens and doddering professorial husband satisfactorily, but soon after the curtain rises begins to have trouble with her children. Her daughter Liza (Lila Lee, oldtime cinemactress trying for a legitimate comeback) is a bobbed-haired nymphomaniac consorting with a London gossip writer who carries cocaine and an automatic. And Daughter-in-law Sybil (Frieda Inescort) thinks she is understood only by a vain popular novelist. Shrewd Lady Jane puts Sybil and the novelist in adjoining bedrooms outside which a nightingale is singing. As Lady Jane expected, they take advantage of propinquity...
...words but little enlightenment for the country at large as to one of the fiercest, fieriest backstage fights of the New Deal. All Washington knew that a mighty tussle was in progress over the future of NRA. Newshawks got circumstantial glimpses of the contest?a second-hand piece of gossip here, an angry word by way of confirmation there...
...newspapers for the first time in 90 days. Ever since the printers of the arch-Republican Record-Herald (evening) and the arch-Democratic Independent (morning) went on strike over wages in mid-May, the capital of Montana had to depend on bulletins, radio, out-of-town newspapers and grapevine gossip for its news. Last fortnight the printers' strike was settled (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week the Record-Herald and the Independent made their reappearance on the streets and in the homes of Helena...
...town Gossip goes around hoping to be the first to get the lowdown on the newcomers. The Author reflects on his new status as householder and taxpayer, wistful over old dreams of adventure, contented in his new respectability. He has a colloquy with the postman. Seeing a school of porpoises he recalls the time when as a boy he and a friend thought they had seen a sea serpent. He takes off his neighbors in a spirit of friendly fun. He relishes acquaintance with some of the local characters. There are summer visitors and uncongenial friends of his wife...