Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...programs the Boston Symphony? There has been a small rumor that it is the same man who chooses the Boston weather. At any rate, both have strange and glorious ideas, but the majority of them are bad. the prevailing philosophy of Symphony programs seems to be: any recent work by a reputable living composer is worth performance, but, to make up for subjecting our customers--to such difficult music, let us play pap such a Rachmaninoff, Sibelius, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Tchaikovsky. And, to hide the fraud, when we play Mozard, let us botch...
Nicolai Lenin's embalmed body was back in its Red Square mausoleum, and the Moscow News officially confirmed an old rumor-that it had been in Siberia, out of reach of the Germans, ever since...
Latest Hitler rumor, circulating in Bavaria: he is alive and plotting another war against the western Allies-in collaboration with Generalissimo Stalin...
...rumor mills had it that Hirohito, while closeted with MacArthur, discussed abdication in favor of Crown Prince Akihito, 11, and a regency. But there was no visible pressure on him to leave the throne. If abdication was in fact discussed, it was because Hirohito himself wanted...
...Squire Literary Agent Marcella Powers, thirtyish, whom Lewis says he will not (but rumor insists he may) soon marry...