Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazine world buzzed with rumors about various "Projects X," all being guarded as top-secret until their publishers were good & ready to unveil them. But last week Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. let one project out of the bag even before it got to the rumor stage...
...antecedents), Gene Tunney, Charles Evans Hughes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But the rich and notable are by no means Brooks's only customers. In recent years, it has sold suits for as little as $43, built up annual sales volume to an estimated $5 million. There was a horrid rumor last week that Garfinckel's considered this volume too low, might install a line of women's clothing. To the loyal wearers of the No. 1 Sack Coat this was not only unmentionable, it was unthinkable...
Every day brought a new one. An international rumor not ascribed to Yalta was no more respectable than a resident of Boston's Back Bay whose ancestors had not come over in the Mayflower...
What did le grand Charlie think of all this? "Silent as the Sphinx," reported the weekly Le Clou, "De Gaulle amuses himself with the subtle game of enigmas." Rumor whirled among left-wingers of an impending rightist coup. "De Gaulle's intransigent friends," said Le Clou, "dream for their Idol a destiny either like a return from the island of Elba or one resulting from a big scuffle...
...rumor about new flour sacks, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...