Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rumor spread wildfirewise through Rumania last week that King Ferdinand lay dead in his palace, but that the fact would be concealed until after the return of Queen Marie to Bucharest. From every major Capital, Rumanian diplomats protested indignantly that their Sovereign was alive.* Meanwhile the Rumanian Court Chamberlain, General Angelesco, sped to meet Queen Marie on her arrival at Cherbourg...
...special request of the Dean of Minnesota,-so the rumor would have it-the term "Thundering Herd," recently applied to the football team of that institution, has been changed (because of its bovine implications) to "Galloping Gophers." Last Saturday the Galloping Gophers scored 81 points against a team of human males from Butler...
Over the waste stretches of the march lands journey the Ten Thousand Men of Harvard with their goal a white line across a green field far away guarded the rumor goes by an indigo Cerebus. This afternoon before the sun drift into the concrete of the Bowl and sufficient thrills have entered sufficient college hearts the yearly puzzle will unravel: does or does not John Harvard win his big games...
This year a new and definitely recognizable counter-development has appeared; the extension of aroused professionalism into fields where amateur sport had acquired the professional atmosphere--though not its frankness. In both football and tennis Mr. Pyle has done inestimable service to amateurism. Rumor has had it that this indefatigable promoter will extend his field of activity to include track, which has certainly sorely needed elastic treatment...
Just how the life of this young artist ended is not known with any exactness. Rumor at the time had it that he was poisoned by jealous rivals in art but whether this is a fact or not still remains a mystery which will probably never be surely solved...