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Hooksett, New Hampshire,
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Hoover, J. Edgar,
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Hopper, Hedda,
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Horowitz, Vladimir,
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House Un-American Activities Committee,
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Howe, Irving,
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Hucksters, The
(movie),
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Hudson, Rock,
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human-interest stories,
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human typologies,
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humorous gossip,
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Hutchins, Robert,
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Hutton, Len,
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"Hypochondriack, The" (Boswell),
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hypocrisy, revealing,
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Hypocrite Virtucrat type,
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idealism, and leaks,
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"Idea of Liberal Education, The" (Klein),
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idle talk,
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illegitimacy.
See
births, out of wedlock

I Married a Communist
(Roth),
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impartiality, gossip vs.,
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Importance of Being Earnest, The
(Wilde),
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incest, gossip about,
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In Cold Blood
(Capote),
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indiscretion, and good gossip,
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informational gossip

about celebrities,
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ethics of,
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leaks,
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and role of journalists,
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unedited,
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value of/uses for,
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"Inner Ring, The" (Lewis),
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insider knowledge

gossip as form of,
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and social status,
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insults, gossip vs.,
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interest in gossip, enduring,
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Internet

correcting errors on,
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etiquette for,
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and freedom vs. privacy,
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impact on nature of gossip,
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insults on,
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and public embarrassment,
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public vs. private on,
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specialized gossip on,
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and speed of spread of gossip,
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and spread of malicious gossip,
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taste for gossip on,
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unedited information on,
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WikiLeaks,
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interpreting gossip,
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in the know, being.
See
insider knowledge

Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity in America
(Schickel),
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Isherwood, Christopher,
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Jack Paar Show,
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Jackson, Andrew,
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Jackson, Jesse,
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James, Henry

disapproval of gossip,
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gossip about,
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gossip in novels of,
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The Reverberator,
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Jefferson, Thomas,
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Jessel, George,
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"jet set,"
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Johnson, Lyndon,
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Johnson, Samuel,
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joke telling,
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Jon and Kate Plus
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(TV show),
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Joubert, Joseph,
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journalism.
See also
gossip columnists

and creating buzz,
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exposés and scoops,
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gossip component,
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on the Internet,
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investigative,
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Judaism, gossip as sin in,
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Kagan, Elena,
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Kagan, Yisrael Meir,
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Katz, Bob,
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Kaye, Danny,
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Kazin, Alfred,
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Keillor, Garrison,
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Kelly, Gene,
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Kelly, Grace,
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Kennedy, Bobby,
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Kennedy, Jacqueline (Jackie Onassis),
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Kennedy, John F.

and Dickinson,
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and Dietrich,
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endurance of gossip about,
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love of gossip,
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respect for privacy of,
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Kennedy, Robert,
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Kilgallen, Dorothy,
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King, Martin Luther, Jr.,
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kissing and telling,
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Kissinger, Henry,
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klatsch,
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Klein, Jacob,
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Knickerbocker, Cholly (Maury Paul),
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Korda, Alexander,
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Kramer, Hilton,
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Kristol, Bea (Gertrude Himmelfarb),
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Kristol, Irving,
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Kundera, Milan,
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La Bruyère,
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La Chétardie,
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Ladurie, Emannuel,
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La Fontaine, Jean de,
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La Guardia, Fiorello,
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Lamb, Caroline,
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Lamb, Charles,
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Lantos, Tom,
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lashon hara
,
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Last Days of Hitler, The
(Trevor-Roper),
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Last Puritan, The
(Santayana),
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lawsuits,
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See also
libel laws

leaks,
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Lee, Ivy,
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Lehman, Ernest,
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Leibovitz, Annie,
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Leigh, Vivien,
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Lerman, Leo,
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Lerner, Max,
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Lessing, Doris,
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Le Tellier, Père,
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letters, indiscretions in,
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Letters from Oxford
(Trevor-Roper),
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Lewinsky, Monica,
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Lewis, C. S.,
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Lewis, Sinclair,
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libel laws

and blog postings,
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and Internet gossip,
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slander vs. libel,
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truth justification,
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U.S. vs. England,
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Licensing Act, revocation of,
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Life of Johnson
(Boswell),
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Lincoln, Abraham,
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literacy, and interest in gossip,
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literature, gossip-based,
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Lives of the Poets
(Johnson),
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Locke, Richard,
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London Magazine
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Louis XIV,
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Louis XV,
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Lowell, Robert,
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Loy, Myrna,
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Luce, Henry,
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Lunt, Alfred,
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Lyndon, Andrew,
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Lyons, Leonard,
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MacArthur, Charles,
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MacArthur, Douglas,
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Macfadden, Bernarr,
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Macmillan, Harold,
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Madoff, Bernard,
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Madonna,
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Maine, Duc de,
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Main Street
(S. Lewis),
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Maintenon, Mme. de,
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Malamud, Bernard,
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malicious gossip.
See also
damage

in academic settings,
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creation and dispersing of,
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effects of,
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ethics of,
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and interest in human character,
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on the Internet,
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purveyors of,
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truth factor and,
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Mandarins, The
(Beauvoir),
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Mann, Thomas,
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Mann, William d'Alton,
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marital infidelity, gossip about,
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Martin, Peter,
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Marx, Groucho,
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Master, The
(Tóibín),
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Maugham, W. Somerset,
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Maupassant, Guy de,
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Maxwell, Elsa,
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McCain, John,
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McCarthy, Joseph,
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McCarthy, Mary,
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McCullers, Carson,
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McEwan, Ian,
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McGee, Frank,
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McKelway, St. Clair,
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McNamara, Robert,
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McPhee, John,
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McQueen, Steve,
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Memoirs
(Saint-Simon),
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memoirs,
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See also
self-gossip

men, gossip among,
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Mencken, H. L.,
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Merkin, Daphne,
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Metternich,
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Meyers, Jeffrey,
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Middle of the Journey, The
(L. Trilling),
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Miller, Arthur,
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Miramax, and
Talk
magazine,
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Mitchell, Joseph,
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Mitchum, Robert,
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Mitford, Nancy,
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mitzvot,
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Mogambo
(movie),
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Monroe, Marilyn,
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Montesquiou, Robert de,
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moral instruction through gossip,
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