Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department denied the rumor that another lecturer would replace Normano, who has been associate director of the Harvard Bureau of Economic Research in Latin America...
Abbott Lawrence, grandfather of President Lowell, was the American ambassador to England from 1849 until 1852, which fact may be the cause of the rumor. Also to be taken into account is the fact that the late President Eliot was offered the post...
...candidate. The paper engaged him, as a wise observer and able writer, with the understanding that he should enjoy freedom of expression. Month ago he plumped publicly for Roosevelt. But seldom had he been so sharp-spoken and the obvious deletions, plus the editor's note, started a rumor through Manhattan newsrooms that Walter Lippmann had been censored by Publisher & Mrs. Ogden Reid. Newsmen recalled the case of Colyumist Heywood Broun who was fired from the late World, when Lippmann was editor, for writing too bitterly about the Sacco-Vanzetti case...
When Writer Lippmann heard the rumor he promptly exploded it. He had ordered the deletions, he said, after he had arrived home on Long Island because "I felt on reflection that the language was too strong and that it was open to misconstruction." As soon as the article was trimmed, telegraph wires buzzed with instructions to the hundred-odd newspapers which buy the piece from the Herald Tribune Syndicate, and which had already received the original version. But not all clients received word in time to catch early editions. In some, Writer Lippmann's "strong" language appeared...
...liquor for the sane- Drink deep! Let scepticism reign And its astringence clear the brain! To the Cherrells, who had sound ideas on income (which they pronounced "ink 'em") but thought more of Service to the State, Wilfrid was not a catch. More, a horrid rumor about him began to be bruited about the London clubs: threatened by a Moslem fanatic in Darfur, he had turned Moslem under pressure! Letting England down, what? Worst of all, the fellow had written a poem about it, had the impudence to publish it. The ensuing scandal ran his book up into...