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Gossips spins nonstop within this inbred group, but usually former officers keep it zipped in public, with their version of the aristocratic credo “Never complain, never explain.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2023

Gossips were equally amazed at the support young matrons and businessmen were giving him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gossips said that President Roosevelt was suffering from sinus trouble, but the President described the ailment which confined him to his four-poster bed for two days last week as "sniffles."

From Time Magazine Archive

Gossips thrive on a kind of conspiracy theory that has Charles and Diana each surrounded by cadres of supporters who leak material damaging to the other.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gossips said that the singer, Paolo Tostini, had not cared enough for Marian Callender to take her without a dot; and all she had came from her millionaire half-brother.

From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)