Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...color. But the Old Howard with its translucent stench rising to a few few above the sea level on the ground floor is changing its cosmetics, not its complexion. This week as every week the stage show deals a knock-out punch--a foul jab strictly below the belt. Rumor for years has claimed that the chorus of 30 beauties 30 is recruited from rheumatic jitterbugs on the list of retired University employees, but no one goes to see the chorus anyhow, It's the blue-lighted anatomical solos which bring the crowds past the box office...
...Rumor of the nasty affair came first to the CRIMSON and from there spread to amazed and unsuspecting Bellboys. Asked for a comment on the unhappy "fait accompli" Joseph P. Lyford '41, chairman of the House committee, commented: "Sour grapes and infants! Everything happens...
...Dame Rumor raced swiftly through the Yard last night spreading far and wide a false story that Mother Advocate's simply divine party, scheduled for this afternoon, was to be called off because R. Bowden Broadwater '42, Pegasus and patron of the ballet, had swallowed his chewing...
...Puzzled over a job for Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, who Washington rumor said was slated for an Assistant Secretaryship of the Navy-although some said War. Meanwhile "The Cork" prowled about more secretively than ever, still in too much of a hurry to buy a new overcoat to replace the seedy out-at-seams chesterfield he has worn for nine years...
...Rumor, unconfirmed, was that Roosevelt had a job for him: coordinator of the Lend-Lease program...