Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seiler, were instantly killed, the mechanic merely showing bare signs of life and passing away without regaining consciousness. The accident was ascribed to an airpocket dashing the ma-chine to the ground, a hardly feasible premise; another guess was that the pilot had died suddenly of heart disease. A rumor of political assassination was dismissed...
...What about this rumor regarding Pegasus?" suggested the reporter but her reply convinced him of the inadequacy of his vocabulary to cope with the situation, and he hasilly took his departure, salvaging such of his copy as he could from the enraged lady's beak and claws...
...cotton episode was accompanied by, or perhaps it caused a rumor that Secretary Jardine would soon resign to accept a high-salaried position as "tsar" of the orange-lemon-grapefruit industry in Flori...
Some newspapers seized eagerly upon this rumor. The San Francisco Examiner printed the picture of the beauteous Miss Franck, professional dancer, heading it "PRO and KAHN." What actually happened: In Paris Roger Kahn had his picture taken with Miss Franck standing near the wing of an airplane. Shrewd, the Parisian photographers mailed both Miss Franck and Mr. Kahn 25 pictures, bill enclosed. Shrewder, Miss Franck sold them to the Daily News together with a vague rumor. Thereupon she received many thousands of dollars' worth of publicity. But she is not engaged to Mr. Kahn...
Even Florence is not wholly peaceful in her glory, for there bites at her consciousness of superiority a rumor, well founded but unwelcome on Manhattan playgrounds, that a girl from Cincinnati once bounced and snatched her way through 40 flawless games...