Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Honorable Senators!" he cried, and every Fascist leaned forward, knowing that potent words would follow: ". . . The problem of Italo-Ethiopian relations is the order of the day, and not only in Italy. . . . One rumor abroad in some foreign circles is to be denied formally immediately-a rumor of Franco-British diplomatic 'steps' in Rome...
...other Houses tried to block plans for the Dunster House spring dance that is scheduled for tonight, ingenious Colonel Charles R. ("Break It Up") Apted '06 devised this lofty method of delivering the musical instruments for Don Redman's famous orchestra, which has been engaged to provide the music. Rumor has it that additional supplies for the dance tonight and perhaps Don Redman's Orchestra itself, will be brought to Dunster House by a river barge if necessary to foll the plotters...
...River case was only a beginning. They planned to prosecute Rettich first under the "Lindbergh Law" for enticing Andino Merola across a State line to his death. But first they expected him to tell something about the disappearance in 1933 of his onetime 'legging partner. Danny Walsh, who, rumor said, had been stood in a tub of cement until it dried, then tossed into Narragansett Bay. Perhaps he could explain, too, what happened to "Legs" Carella, whose body was found wrapped up in burlap with feet hacked off, gold tooth knocked out, scars sliced away. Most hopeful were they...
...moderns expect the world to end with a bang, at least in their own day, but the year 1212 seemed to many an appropriate date for Doomsday. Rumor set the exact time: the 12th day of the 12th month. Author Clayton begins his tale early in this ominous year, in romantic, ravaged Provence, where the fat lands of favored abbeys are set like islands in the war-swept countryside, and corpses hang high on every road. Holy Church has been chastening her heretical children. In the Abbey of La Soleza, whose fanatical head, Fray Sebastian, is a power...
Unconfirmed but unsinkable last week was a rumor that Karl Bickel was wanted by the Scripps-Howard newspapers, whither two onetime U. P. presidents, Roy Wilson Howard and William W. Hawkins, had gone before...