Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time there was a rumor that Japan had decided not to accept games, and Finland was prominently mentioned as the foremost candidate for the games. This rumor was controverted, however, by the action of the meeting in March in Cairo, Egypt, which defintely voted that the games should take place in Japan the year after next...
Last week the University students' annual news review, Echo, with undergraduate temerity published the drawing, printed a rumor that juvenile Franja had been so embarrassed by her parents' Christmas card that she had persuaded her father-a critic of progressive education -to send her off to join a friend in progressive Jokake School in Arizona...
Things are not so good for the Old Woman either. Last year Joe Nuelle left her to become president of Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. and shortly afterward, she filed under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act. There is another rumor around the Stock Exchange and roundhouses: She may be divided up piece by piece among other Eastern roads, and a large piece will go to Delaware & Hudson...
Last week a rumor of Kathe Kollwitz' arrest in Berlin coincided with the opening of three simultaneous exhibitions of her work in Manhattan. Whether or not the rumor was a bit of gratuitous promotion, visitors to the three shows needed no prodding to deplore Nazi treatment of the artist. No abstractionist. Kathe Kollwitz is a weighty, marvelously skilled draftsman in the great 19th-Century line. It is her subject matter, always proletarian, bitterly naturalistic and sorrowful, that rules her out of the "Strength through Joy" school...
Local wits, standing in mud puddles at the foot of the steps, had a field day. The rumor spread that Barnes had found a goldfish in each pocket, but was not substantiated...