Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Teams entered in the National Squash Tournaments of the future will be forced to enter men in the individual play as well, according to a rumor now current in squash circles...
...When the rumor went about that patrol wagons were on the way, many in the crowd dispersed, but a considerable number remained out of curiosity. With the Square still filled with students, the four patrol wagons, loaded with 40 policemen, arrived, charged through the crowds, and drew up at the subway station. No one was injured though several people narrowly escaped being run down by the police cars...
...himself in fervent unbridled fashion to members of the informal U. S. investigating committee now touring Mexico. Apparently the Calles Government was thereby stampeded into the rash act of arrresting Bishop Diaz, and concealing the place of his detention. This served only to make the Bishop a subject for rumor, mystery, speculation, sympathy...
...from far away New Mexico, comes rumor that The King's Henchman is completed, is Miss Millay's greatest achievement. According to her host-companion Poet Arthur Ficke, "it begins on a high heroic plane and mounts steadily in dramatic interest. It is mag-nificent." It sings of an English King who despatched his bosom friend, centuries ago, to seek out the Thane of Devon, to bring back word whether the Thane's daughter is really as fair as tradition would have her. On All Hallows' Eve the ambassador beholds the beauty stealing timidly over...
...back on Broadway. Now he returns with Lace Petticoat. Good songs by Emil Gersten-berger and Producer Carlton, ingenious dances, Adelaide & Hughes abominable lines, stale humor! make it an uneven entertainment. Suggested by Deep River, it concerns a beautiful Louisiana nobody, whose romance is almost blasted by the rumor that she is a quadroon. In the last act, somebody says it is mere gossip. Song: "South Wind Is Calling." Tom Burke is the hero-tenor; Vivian Hart, newcomer, the joy of his stage life. Notable is a chorus of skeletons in radium-paint...