Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening ended with no answer to the question which has been bothering Manhattan for two months. Was this season to be Toscanini's last in the U. S.? Or was it only rumor that the Maestro was tired, eager to quit? If he did leave what would be the effect on music in Manhattan? Some took the stand that his presence has had its unfortunate reaction, that other conductors have been slighted because they lacked his consummate touch, that too many concertgoers have come to think more of a Toscanini performance than of the music that is played...
...Among the nations of the great Western Hemisphere the policy of the good neighbor has happily prevailed. . . . There is neither war, nor rumor of war, nor desire for war. The inhabitants of this vast area, 250,000,000 strong . . . believe in, and propose to follow, the policy of the good neighbor. And they wish with all their heart that the rest of the world might do likewise. "The rest of the world-Ah! There's the rub. . . . The people of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening...
...When the rumor went around six weeks ago that Leopold Stokowski was resigning from the Philadelphia Orchestra, no one took much notice because the fair-haired conductor has upset Philadelphia before with loud cries of "Wolf!" Last week the rumor became fact. Though for once he appeared to have no bone to pick with the Orchestra board, Stokowski refused a new three-year contract, announced that he would return for 20 concerts next season, but that he wanted the rest of his time for research...
...Augustus Lindbergh, with his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh and their 3-year-old son Jon, sailed furtively out of New York Harbor toward Europe aboard the S. S. American Importer. On that slender foundation of fact the U. S. Press last week reared as enormous a fabric of conjecture, rumor, implication and denunciation as has been built in nearly two thousand years on the 67-word story of the Flight into Egypt.* News of the Lindbergh flight broke in the final Monday edition of the New York Times, on the streets at 4 a. m. The New York American, morning...
...London rumor grew that the King is personally for this solution, famed Editor James Louis Garvin predicted in London's Conservative Sunday Observer that British public opinion hostile to The Deal will eventually rearrange itself and that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin "in due time will emerge with a moral triumph never surpassed in the House of Commons...