Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means rich is the mother of King Carol's private secretary. But last week this good woman bought a palace in Bucharest for $65,000. It is intended, affirmed rumor, for Courtesan Magda. No lover of stuffy boudoirs, this healthy, active woman, daughter of a Jewish junkman named Wolff, who became Carol's mistress in 1919. is happiest in the out-of-doors. Therefore a small army of laborers was promptly put to work at altering the palace, re-landscaping its handsome park...
Newfoundland's Mere $8,000,000. Because the Government of Newfoundland, "Oldest British Colony," has been unable to find buyers for an $8,000,000 bond issue, harassed Premier Sir Richard Squires raised money last week by selling Labrador to "European interests": such was a Wall Street rumor that jolted the British Empire...
...advise you that there is no basis whatever for this rumor...
Police of Holyoke, Mass, revealed last week that officials of a woman's college (Smith College is also nearby) had complained of students visiting speakeasies.† Taking notice of a rumor that detectives had gathered evidence for the 17 suspensions, Mt. Holyoke said officially: "The detection of infringement of college regulations was not brought about by detectives, but came through report by the culprits themselves to the college judicial board. There have been no extra fire drills**. . . President Woolley says . . . 'The college is now suffering the backwash of lawlessness which prevails, frequently unchecked, in the country at large...
...Dear Mr. Beck: I have not dignified the rumor of the sale of the Tribune nor do I intend to do so. But if any of our people are worried you can tell them the Tribune will not be sold in my time...