Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...records as a current in the general news stream. When Broker Richard Whitney crashed, Reporter Robb's column was devoted to reporting what lunchers at "21" and the Colony had to say about it. Few society reporters take so newsworthy an approach. She spurns the usual drivel of rumor and chitchat...
Hollywood Hearstattler Louella Parsons reported a rumor that Hitler had clapped his onetime favorite, oldtime Cinemactress Pola Negri, in a concentration camp because she talked too much...
Many a foreign news dispatch to the U. S. is about one-tenth fact and nine-tenths rumor and conjecture. Working in a murky subterranean world of censorship, rumor-mongering and diplomatic duplicity, an honest reporter must search every shovelful of rumor for the nugget of fact, assay each fact for the elusive motive that gives it value. On the basis of a single such fact, not necessarily important in itself, an impressive and vaguely portentous flow of dispatches can be written from the capitals of Europe, recounting rumored reactions and reactions to reactions...
Most fearsome of all rumors is the rumor of war. Living in an atmosphere heavy with war talk, the foreign correspondent is usually immune to war hysteria. Yet more than once the foreign correspondents have marched the people of Europe to the brink of battle and then marched them back again...
This time, war was to begin on August 15. The rumor was based on a fact: for that day. Hitler had ordered the beginning of the most extensive war games since the World War. This fact, combined with Hitler's known aims in Czechoslovakia, bred mutterings in the capitals of Europe which correspondents duly reported. U. S. papers trotted out a familiar headline: EUROPE TENSE...