Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pius XII was reported to have sent his last peace appeal, in his own handwriting, to II Duce. Disregarded in the Vatican, denied in Washington, was a rumor that President Roosevelt had offered the Papal Court a refuge in the U. S., or transportation to any other place the Pope desired...
...band on the record was drummer Freddy Moynahan of Boston. He didn't sound too sharp and most of the men on the job kidded him about his playing . . . So word back from Chicago says that he is now Bud Freeman's drummer and is hailed as a sensation . . . Rumor has it that Benny Goodman is going to release drummer Fatool, that he traded punches with "Handy" Stokowski, and that he is going to make records with Fred Astaire...
...Rumor-Mongers Silenced. While Scotland Yard worked to remove a tangible menace from the British Isles. Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper inveighed against the more insidious danger of "lethargy, defeatism and rumor." Declaring that the impending dangers are being faced "in confidence, indeed in pride," he opened a campaign against rumormongering. It had been verified that "They say . . ." stories had caused the evacuation of several French villages and had thrown thousands of peasants into panic, and even as Duff Cooper spoke, a creepy story circulated in London about a nun in a railway carriage who stooped to pick...
Pleased at having plucked this prize away from Lehman Bros, and Blyth & Co., who bid too low, Tri-Continental announced that its syndicate would keep a third of the shares, sell the rest. Rumor was that Newport News's President Homer Lenoir Ferguson, Annapolis man and head of the firm for 25 years, would step up to board chairman, boss the show from there, while his handsome Vice President Roger Williams, former Navy line officer, would take over as president...
...That reports from Sweden are subject to such errors as are inevitable because of rumor and distance from the scene of battle but that if they are repeated long enough they generally prove to have substance; that in Sweden, as elsewhere, the worst published misstatements have resulted from laymen leaping to false conclusions about military situations. (Example: that a major naval battle took place in the Skagerrak because heavy explosions-probably depth charges, air bombings etc.-were heard on the shore...