Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chemists who analyzed chunks of the fallen building pronounced the cement not only badly mixed but adulterated. Quickly scotched was a scandalous rumor that "faulty American cement mixers" were responsible for the holocaust...
...Certain unscrupulous telegraphic agencies continue to resort to rumors of political difficulties in Spain, forgetting in the first place that, properly said, there is not any politics at present. The last rumor is the most picturesque, assuming that His Majesty, while at San Sebastian, had refused his signature to the Premier on several decrees of destitution of authorities that the Premier proposed to relieve of their positions for having been unfaithful to the regime. The national opinion knows the value of such tricks, but the good faith of the foreign opinions might be surprised by such misleading news and therefore...
...Other developments in a week of early season activity included a rumor that Princeton would disown the famed huddle-system which it began to use long before its puzzled rivals. Also the sixth and seventh casualties of the football season took place in hospitals. Leo Goodreau, 19, died of a broken neck in Philadelphia, calling the signals for the play in which he had been hurt. In Washington, Pa., William Charles Young had his back broken in a scratch game. In Orange, N. J., another casualty occurred. A man in a cinema theatre, watching a picture of Bruce Caldwell playing...
...that the open season for attractive ybung males is on in Boston, whether the deplorable lack of interest in outside activity will limit the number of stags at the Somerset during the long winter evenings. Anxious motherhood may well feel an unusual apprehension in view of the widespread rumor that students are now interested in studies. If Harvard men forsake the ball-room, this last infirmary for noble minds, and refuse to go, marching in close order to answer a maiden's prayer, undergraduate interest in things intellectual will Indeed be permanently confirmed...
...opening night of The Singing Fool Broadwayfarers buzzed with the rumor that Jolson would wed Ruby Keeler.* This Jolson vehemently denied. Two days later Jolson gave the little girl his hand at Port Chester. N. Y., metropolitan Gretna Green. It was Jolson's third wedding, Ruby Keeler's first...