busybody

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Sample playbills during one recent Peking opera week: People's Theater: Busybody Li, the story of an overeager woman on a commune.

From Time Magazine Archive

Busybody Pinkerton makes more trouble, has more excitement than usual, in a suburban poisoning case.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the same time he was writing for Mr. Pottinger's "Busybody," and Mr. Wilkie's "Lady's Magazine."

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur

I was vexed at this, and to counteract them, not being able to commence our paper, I wrote several amusing pieces for Bradford's paper, under the title of the Busybody, which Brientnal continued some months.

From Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Franklin, Benjamin

The Busybody is always anxious after something about Somebody.

From A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 by Thurston, Katherine Cecil