Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately for their cause, the night watchmen found them as they were exploring the colonnade, and one was promptly ejected as the other two escaped into parts unknown. According to the watchmen, they were "college fellows, all right," and one rumor indicated they were Brown men, out to paint the shining white goalposts the color of their Alma Mater...
...Newport, where ambitious Mrs. Sigrist was overshadowed by ambitious Mrs. Sopwith, Endeavour I, and Endeavour II held no formal trial races and rumor was that the partners had a series of misunderstandings. Mr. Sopwith selected Endeavour II as the challenger, lost his navigator when Donald MacPhee died of gastric ulcers, then lost the cup to Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Ranger with four straight defeats. At the end of this unfortunate adventure overseas, with relations cooler than they had been in 20 years of partnership, the Sigrists and Sopwiths sailed home...
...expedition to this building to verify the rumor revealed that on the third and fourth floors there were mirrors arranged so that a good view of the disaster could be had from the couch across the room, and the space in front of the windows was cleared to accomodate the speedy influx of curious. One floor had the makings of a loud speaker rigged up so that even the most minute scrape could be detected...
...home on the second floor, the rumor has not been promoted beyond that status...
...Japanese propaganda could be excised from the textbooks. One hundred and sixty hand-picked Chinese police began laboriously to learn the Japanese language. The Peiping Chamber of Commerce opened Japanese language classes to make it easier for Chinese shopkeepers to sell things to their "new masters." There was even rumor that Japan would bring back to Peiping from his dragon-&-orchid throne in Manchukuo's capital 31-year-old Emperor Kang Te, famed as "Mr. Henry Pu Yi," last of China's Manchu Emperors, who abdicated when the Republic was set up in 1912, was crowned Emperor...