Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyed Texan who last June jolted staid New Canaan, Conn, by bumping off Seaman Al Kovacs, 19, in an "aura of sex recrimination, beer and window-smashing reprisals" (so said Coroner Theodore E. Steiber), returned from a summer of Army camping with her husband, Major George R. Stevens III. Rumor said that she might seek a change of venue for her impending manslaughter trial because of public prejudice...
Then she cooed: "Now, most Washingtonians are convinced that Mrs. Truman intended no slight in not receiving Madame Chiang. It is the sort of misunderstanding which could undoubtedly have been cleared up overnight-long before the rumor mills began grinding out their bitter chaff-if the distaff side of the White House maintained any sort of 'diplomatic' relations with the press...
...there was a noticeable drop in the sales of fur coats and jewelry. Merchants thought this was due more to the rumor that the 20% luxury tax will soon be removed than to a conservative trend in buying. Exception: in Denver, fur coats priced up to $6,000 each were selling like hotcakes...
Last week the royal Rumanian household was told that it could not go to Europe. Indignantly the refurbished suite reserved on the Lisbon-bound Serpa Pinto was canceled. Wailed Madame Udarianu: "The trip was stopped. The trip was stopped." Rumor had it that the U.S. and Britain feared that Carol's return might upset delicate balances in the Balkans. Officially, the trip was off because Madame's health was "uncertain." Gloomily Carol ordered the bags unpacked...
None of the wire services from whom NBC gets its news had reported any such thing. Next day, red-faced NBC first said that somehow or other Goddard had picked it up from a "reliable private source"; then added that, after all, it was only a rumor, and had been so qualified...