Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RUMOR IN THE FOREST (152 pp.) -Madeleine Couppey, translated by Marguerite Waldman-Scribner...
...Rumor credited the appearance of the quotation to a long range Yale publicity coup, which was climaxed by under-rating the Bulldogs for the Thames regatta two weeks ago. Bolles had made some such remark, the rumor ran, at a coaches' meeting prior to the Princeton race and Yale's mentor, Allen Walz, carried it to the sports writers without Bolles being aware of the deed...
...signed with the good Irish name McNally, but the spinsters in the border town of Carrickmacross were not to be hoodwinked. Up & down the border they sent the rumor flying: "'tis the British want our cats. They'll eat them, and they're that hard up for a rag to put on their backs, they'll even skin them." From Carrick to Ballyshannon and back to Castleblayney the old maids nodded and locked up their pets. "Men are even stealing cats to sell to the British," said one woman to a TIME correspondent last week...
Just before England's Derby began last week, the stewards summoned all the jockeys and issued a warning: there must be no skullduggery. Nobody had ever before felt the need to issue such a warning at Epsom Downs' big race. But a rumor had gone around that the other jockeys were going to take it easy and let England's alltime champion rider, Gordon Richards, win (TIME, June 2). It was a chance to get Richards out of their hair: they had heard that wealthy little Jockey Richards would retire if he won the race...
Best anti-lamprey measure would be to drum up commercial demand. Lampreys were once a popular delicacy: Henry I of England is reputed to have died from a surfeit of them. Dr. Van Oosten is checking a rumor that Italians in Bessemer, Pa. are lamprey enthusiasts. If a market can be found, enterprising Great Lakes fishermen will gladly exterminate the lampreys free of charge...