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Word: rumor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Terra replied that troops had merely shut off their electrical power, stopping the presses. Montevideo businessmen were satisfied. But inland the estancia owners and peons awoke from their doze, waited in vain for news from Montevideo. They picked up an occasional scanty radio report from the Argentine, spread rumor and uneasiness by word of mouth. Observers agreed that the Constitution from which all power had leaked last week was probably unrefillable. What the new Constitution would be depended on how well Dictator Terra put his case to rural Uruguayans who have almost forgotten how to die in civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: Gabriel Over the Fire House | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

Meanwhile another draft on "Little Dollfuss' " stiff neck was the rumor sweeping through Austria, that the 2O-year-old Archduke Otto von Habsburg, pretender to the throne, was either in the country or on the Swiss frontier, waiting for a call. Three newspapers were promptly suppressed for hinting at the story in print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: AUSTRIA Dollfuss & Adolf | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...Mayer, Fox Production Chief Winfield Sheehan, Warner Brothers' Jack Warner, Columbia's Harris Cohn, President Benjamin B. Kahane of RKO, Comedy-Producer Hal Roach-met to decide what to do. Their 10,000 underlings, whose total weekly pay amounts to $1,500,000, blenched at the rumor that all studios would close for at least four weeks. Next day the producers met again. They decided they could keep studios open temporarily at least if employes at $50 a week or more took a 50% paycut for eight weeks, with a 25% cut for employes under $50. What followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollyday | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...somewhat more than spirit. The present President of the United States is said to have lived in Westmorly during part of his undergraduate stay. Ann Pennington is reputed to have been entertained in the swimming pool with many of her beautifully-limbed compatriots, and the various versions of this rumor are both exciting and legion. Then too there is the good-will bestowed upon the House by the no longer existing Adams House of Boston, a hostel long famous for its good cheer, the deed for which is in the House archives. Besides these more or less authentic representations, there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOUSES IN OPERATION | 3/10/1933 | See Source »

...achievement was to go to bed at eleven o'clock every night") she soon found her married life was to have no pretense of love, not even (until Louis finally consented to an operation) a chance of children. Though scandal surrounded her, Biographer Anthony thinks it was baseless rumor. Marie did have expensive tastes, however, and loved cards. The evening before her 21st birthday she played faro continuously for 36 hours. One lover (Biographer Anthony thinks) Marie Antoinette did have: discreet, able Count Axel Fersen, a Swede who served two and one-half years in the U.S. Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cradle to Guillotine | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

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