Word: rumored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rosces Pound, Dean - emeritus of the Law School, will be the first roving professor to occupy the chair endowed by Thomas W. Lamont '92, according to a rumor yesterday from a highly reliable source...
...late Emperor Franz Josef's Schonbrunn Palace. In its theatre a party of giggling girls began-throwing kisses at the Duke of Windsor and he spent some time blowing kisses back at them with a curious two-finger gesture. There was no scrap of evidence, plenty of rumor that the Princess Royal and Harewood, who was recently appointed an Aide de Camp to new King George, had come to discuss the Duke of Windsor's finances. Bills for debts he contracted as King are being rapidly settled in London, the biggest check being $600,000 to Cartier...
...known whether the extreme reticence has anything to do with the prevalent rumor that some Harvard faculty members are in line for the new Court positions should they be created...
...bargain or for some other reason. . . . The Soviet State does not deliver up the bodies of the men and women it executes. . . . There is not even habeas cadaver and of course no habeas corpus in the Soviet Union." In a dispatch from Moscow not long ago the rumor that Soviet scientists had invented a gas with the special property of deranging the mentality of a prisoner so as to make him speak and behave for some hours afterward as hypnotically required by Justice, was cautiously mentioned, the writer being still employed in Moscow. Without resorting to the hy- pothesis...
...around to combining these two superlatives, the result was precisely what might have been expected-he made the world's greatest long-distance speed flight, set a new transcontinental record of 7 hr., 28 min., 25 sec. What set secretive Flyer Hughes in motion again was a rumor that someone was about to take a crack at his transcontinental record. Hustling out to Burbank from his home in Los Angeles after midnight, he rolled out his world-record racer, recently re-streamlined and given a 1,100-h.p. Twin Wasp Jr. so powerful that mechanics called the plane...