Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumor had it (among the spectators of Saturday's game) that Harvard's new, silk football pants were inspired by the gorgeous pantaloons worn by the Indians last weekend. An a matter of fact the opposite was the case...
...Angeles, Oct. 29--Apprised of a rumor today that Post-Master James A. Farley had drafted J. T. f. O'Connor, Comptroller of the Currency, to seek Upton Sinclair's withdrawal from the California gubernatorial race, Sinclair and he had no intention of quitting
...Rumor has it that the social life of the Harvard man is about to be simplified for one of these all-inclusive valet organizations in the Square has turned its attention to the duty-dance question. To preserve etiquette around Boston, this firm feels that a gentleman should have the assurance that these sordid experiences have a satisfactory remedy. They are seriously debating organizing a cut in service which would work as follows...
...course the rumor has been around here for some time that the Crimson eleven will go into the game on the short side of at least 2-1 and the difference of one nineth, one tenth, one fifth or whatever it is indicates that somebody has been carrying a little bit of Harvard's enthusiasm to the Great White Way. Not an awful lot of it has managed to seep through the gloomy reports that predict "probably no action" for Freddy Moseley on Saturday, but what has already leaked out might well be supplemented by a great deal more...
There was no doubt about it: the U. S. was seeing within its own frontiers what has come to be a commonplace of Europe?vast sums of timid money skittering out of a country at the first rumor of devaluation or rebellion. By last week the flight of capital from sunny California and the EPIC plans of its Democratic nominee for Governor had become a major market factor...