Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gomes has been called both an ultra-nationalist and "the most pro-American man in Brazil." He neither smokes nor drinks, goes regularly to Mass, is a bachelor (but Rio rumor said last week he might marry a Spanish Socialist). In the campaign his democratic backers played on the handsome Gomes' appeal, advised Brazil's recently enfranchised women to "vote for the Brigadier, handsome and single...
...none of this bullishness has done U.S. investors any good. There is no way they can trade Axis dollar bonds in London or Frankfurt. Last week Wall Street buzzed with a rumor: the SEC may soon lift the ban on trading in Axis securities...
...Tower languished another treason suspect-handsome, youthful Lord Robert Dudley, whose father, the Duke of Northumberland, had just been beheaded. As children, Lord Robert and the Lady Elizabeth had played together; they had studied Latin under the same tutor. In the Tower they met again. Soon it was rumored that dashing Prisoner Dudley had so bewitched Prisoner Elizabeth that she had fallen hopelessly in love with him. The rumor seemed to be confirmed nearly five years later, when Elizabeth rode in state to her coronation, and Robert Dudley, her newly created Master of the Horse, proudly held the leading rein...
...varied: he was in Moscow, tanned and rested; he was dead; he had suffered a disabling heart attack during his Caucasus vacation; he did not dare risk a cold by exposing himself suddenly to northern weather; he had deliberately stayed away in order to watch his subordinates perform. One rumor even said that Stalin had gone to meet President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...friends is bediamonded, aging, Isabel Mayer. Now in her sixties, Dona Isabel is still famed for her parties and cuisine ("Have some more sea food! It's good for men"). Trujillo was at one of her parties when the infamous massacre of the Haitians occurred in 1937. Rumor has it that Dona Isabel had complained that Haitian peasants, sneaking across the border, were stealing her cattle. The Trujillo soldiery was ordered out. They smashed babies' heads against rocks, ripped pregnant women with bayonets, slaughtered thousands of Haitians. Hogs gorged on the rotting corpses...