Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...check with Dean Watson last night quashed the ripe rumor that the entire Lampoon board was threatened with probation, but Watson confided that he planned to confer with new 'Poon President George Plympton in the near future...
...Early rumors that a conscience-stricken Councilman would attempt to break the filibuster were squelched by an ugly counter-rumor that he wouldn...
...Chicago rang with a rumor that Petrillo had been kidnaped from a suburban nightclub and that other union officers had seen fit to buy him back for $50,000. Jimmy issued shrill denials, distributed a C.P.A. report on the union's finances which showed no $50,000 deduction. But he took to riding in a $25,000 armored car, and recruited a force of bodyguards which included two city detectives...
There is a rumor of the physics major who stayed up three nights in a row and left his exam confident of an "A." Actually, he had filled the bue book with nothing but his name, written over and over. Another tale current in the Hygiene precincts concerns the Sophomore who wrote all his exam one one line of the book, forgetting to go on to the next...
Lyman Bingham, representative of the U. S. Olympic Committee here, vigorously denied the rumor that American entries in skiing, bobsledding, and skating might ignore an official withdrawal...