![]() ![]() Now, thanks to an anonymous blogger with the very Washington moniker “Steward Throat,” the Stewards are back at the center of Hoya scuttlebutt. The last time the society made big news was back in the late 1980s, when, after students’ complaints about elitism and sexism, the Stewards declared themselves dead. The all-male group, which doesn’t identify its members or detail its activities, has long been a source of rumor and controversy on the 104-acre campus, where some students harbor suspicions that group members are pushing a right-wing political agenda - charges the Stewards call absurd. Now, note the key word in this following factual summary early on: Here's the key: It's a society that thinks some of the old-time values found in Catholic education are (wait for it) good and worthy of defense. In particular, it focused on recent online controversies about a secret network - cue appropriate sounds of amazement at the thought of Jesuits involved in a secret operation - called the Second Stewards Society. I bring this up because of feature story that ran the other day in the Style pages at The Washington Post about life behind the scenes at Georgetown. that has long served as the May pole around which progressive American Catholics dance. If he is as doctrinally conservative as it appears that he is, then perhaps it is relevant to ask if Pope Francis could land a faculty position at the prestigious university here in D.C. The assumption, of course, is that all Jesuits would be equally exhilarated about the election of Pope Francis, a man who at first glance appears to be a quite loyal, traditional Catholic. Send us feedback about these examples.When the news broke about the election of the first Jesuit pope, several on-air commentators offered variations on the following line: "You know, I bet they are popping the corks on champagne bottles right now out at Georgetown University." These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'scuttlebutt.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2022 Instead, for the first time in nearly a decade, the scuttlebutt was about record demand, full schedules, and pruning client lists as the need for travel advisers balloons. 2022 This movie stands head and subzero-temp-cold shoulders above its peers in terms of salacious scuttlebutt, however. ![]() Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022 The scuttlebutt among journalists is that organizations know stuff about roster moves and partnership status around 2023, while players are kept almost completely in the dark. 2023 There's scuttlebutt that perhaps Treasury and IRS will issue a notice or two before 2023. 2022 Such was the scuttlebutt ahead of Tuesday’s 80th annual Golden Globes. 2023 Amid this turmoil, markets understandably loved the BOE’s intervention, and the scuttlebutt is that the central bank moved in part because big British pension funds and financial institutions were caught on the wrong side of these rapid shifts in market prices. 2022 Is the scuttlebutt around league circles suggesting that the scouting department couldn’t find a star with a telescope? - Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. Recent Examples on the Web With that attitude in mind, here are my projections for who and what will be nominated in the Oscars’ top six races, informed by industry scuttlebutt as well as recent nominations from the Screen Actors Guild, Producers Guild of America and Directors Guild of America.
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