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Wed 9 Mar, 2005 01:01 pm
Dorothy Kilgallen was a journalist and is remembered for being a panelist on 50's game shows like "What's My Line?". I seem to remember hearing that she died under mysterious circumstances shortly after claiming to have a scoop about the JFK assassination. Does anyone have the story on this?
Any conspiracy theorist will tell you that many people tied to the JFK case died under mysterious circumstances but realistically, these people died just like any of the rest of us. Check this site out:
Mysterious Death?
Also ...
Convenient Deaths?
Last night in the middle of our doubles tennis match my partner leaned over to me and whispered Dorothy Kilgallen. Now I'm petrified I'll die a mysterious death
From what I remember, Dorothy Kilgallen had the reputation of being quite a virago. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that more than one person would want to do her in!
Strange...that's what my partner said...that she wasn't well liked. He described her as a termagant.
panzade- She did have a rather sharp tongue, and was not averse to use it to skewer people who were not in her favor.
I have a dim recollection that she and Jack Parr had a nasty feud going after Dorethy printed unkind remarks about his daughter. I had to look up "termagant', wow, I thought I knew just about every unflattering phrase that could be used to describe an unpleasant woman, but folks, today I learned something. I don't know if she actually lived up the the criteria of "termagant", but she did have a reputation for bitchy behaviour.
Thanks for validating the word glitter. I too was astounded that I had never known such a descriptive word. I had to look up the meaning .
panzade, I have truly never heard the word ever before. For a second I thought someone made it up, but the dictionary proved otherwise. You can feel it can't you? I am just aching to figure out a way to use this in a conversation. Language and languages are a thing of beauty. Thank God, there are still people creative enough and bright enough to express an unpleasant thought without resorting to 4 letter words.
I've not heard 'termagant' but I've read it and understood it by context. I finally looked up 'virago' just now, another word I've read and not heard spoken. As an aside, one of my very favorites guides to Rome is "A Virago's Guide to Rome" - it gives the woman's side to the histories of many of the sites in Rome, quite a pithy account.
i like shrike...what's the equivilent in men?
I mean ...is this a sexist thing?
Hey, panz. The shrike is a bird with a looooooggggggg bill. Now I've answered yours, you answer mine.
Then, of course, there's a shrew.
I only remember that Dorothy did herself in supposedly, and something about what's my line.
Bitch of course has some of the same flavor to the meaning.
...All words that bespoke lack of emotional guardedness by some unthinking female. Not that I'm bitter or anything.
Actually I'm not, bitter that is. But I did notice some years ago that bitchy shrewishness seemed to come from lack of straightforward power, and thought it was a twist on manipulative whininess in dealing with the same.
Not that I am perfect, being as I am a recovering passive aggressive (self diagnosis).
It seems that power would mold the definition...or perhaps lack of power since these words are not applicable to men who in the same instances would be viewed as cunning, masterful and bossy.
And how e're they were viewed, they did have, for a long time, the seat of power, whatever they say about women behind the throne. Women behind the throne is the thing, as mostly women never got to it. Thus shrew, and so on, instead of calm kinglyness, wrapping ermine robes.
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