Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midnight the West Point was ready for sea. But still it did not sail. She was held up, rumor said, because 234 U.S. consular officials in Europe, on their way to Lisbon from posts in Axis territory, had been halted near the German and Italian borders, were to be kept in Frankfurt am Main and San Remo until the West Point delivered her passengers in Lisbon.* At 3:15 o'clock next afternoon, she sailed at last...
...firing gunmen, they have lost their glamor. Most efficient of the operating agencies in this Oriental caricature of Hell is the Japanese Special Service Section; under its jurisdiction is notorious No. 76 Jessfield Road where those whom the Japanese Empire has reason to fear or dislike are brought. Only rumor marks their disappearance...
Through U.S. financial circles last week a rumor whispered that arch-conservative Montagu Norman was finally being eased out of the governorship of the Bank of England which he has held for 21 years. Reported reasons: 1) his close associations with England's appeasement group; 2) his unwillingness to subordinate finance-as-usual to war effort...
...fleet. To the delighted surprise of many an oldtimer, Jax has so far done its job, in the midst of the confusion of organization, with an astounding safety record: one training death in 60,000 flying hours. A great joke to cadets a few weeks ago was the scuttlebutt (rumor) that the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, basing its judgment on the law of averages, had stocked the station with a large surplus of caskets which were overstuffing a remote building...
Editor Marshall dropped out of sight with astonishing completeness when the No Foreign War Committee closed up shop two months ago. So isolated last week was Isolationist Marshall that even his own family made a mystery of his whereabouts. Persistent rumor said he was in a sanatorium somewhere in Wisconsin. But his family-including his five daughters-refused to confirm the rumor. Family friends were more specific. Said one of them: "You know he went off the deep end for a while. But Verne's all right now, and he's sorry for all the things...