Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry Emerson Fosdick officially denied a widespread Canadian rumor that the basement of his Riverside Church (Manhattan) had been equipped with a bar to be operated as soon as Prohibition was repealed...
...Emperor Jones (TIME, Jan. 16) has been enough to keep the Metropolitan out of the financial plight in which it found itself last spring. Despite reduced salaries and a shortened season a $400,000 deficit had directors wondering last week whether to disband or attempt drastic reorganization. Most credible rumor: a twelve weeks' season in New York might be combined with visits to other cities which would be called upon for backing. Louis Eckstein, Ravinia's patron and newest of the Metropolitan's directors, would help arrange a Chicago engagement...
...live apart, sleeping in his clothes, munching nuts in silence. Only two Californians, Glenn Wessels and Sidney Joseph, have actually seen the completed statue. It is a standing St. Francis, with head bowed and face in the deep shadow of a cowl. Friends of the sculptor busily circulate the rumor that the Italian Government is anxious to buy it, to erect in Assisi...
...inter-House dining system, the case for Freshman inclusion is made cogent by characteristics peculiar to itself. Foremost, of course, is the necessity that first year men have some basis on which to make their choice of a House. At present, that choice is founded, generally, on rumor, on chance, on any number of vague reasons. It is conceivable that if dining in the Houses did not imply an imposition on his upper class friends, the Freshman would have an excellent opportunity to become acquainted with all seven. Secondly, at a time when Freshman advisers have little influence over their...
...South Carolinian promptly rose to denounce and deny a baseless slur not only on Edward F. Hutton (who in addition to his shooting preserve, maintains a large duck sanctuary) but also on the hospitality of his State. The Columbia Chamber of Commerce investigated the charge, found not even a rumor to support...