Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newsmen were puzzled at first. Then rumor said that Jimmy Byrnes would take Jimmy Dunn with him to the forthcoming Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in London, and leave him there as the permanent U.S. deputy on the Council. As such, Jimmy Dunn would in effect be the U.S. Under Secretary of State abroad, and a super-Ambassador...
With the murders came a rash of rumors, cranks and pranks. A note pinned up in a public lavatory boasted about the murders over the signature, "Slasher Evans." A young Detroit girl received a phone call threatening her life. One fearful insomniac sought police protection because he heard mysterious noises in the night. Every prostrate drunk brought forth a murder rumor. Mystic-minded citizens noted that all the murders had occurred under a full moon...
Listeners to NBC's key Manhattan station, WEAF, one day last week heard Newscaster Don Goddard say: "... a rumor came bounding into the newsroom. Emperor Hirohito is one of those in Japan who has committed harakiri...
Police Record. Mayor Anton Cermak, who was trying to get Chicago's mildewed reputation scrubbed up for the World's Fair, clamored for a crime cleanup. But the police turned up little except neighborhood rumor: a man named Ted Marcinkiewicz had threatened to hold up Vera's speakeasy. By Dec. 22, when detectives went to see a thick-lipped, black-haired youth named Joe Majczek, the case seemed to be falling apart...
Higashi-Kuni went through Tokyo's Military Academy. In the early '20s he served as military attaché in Paris, where he studied French tactics, acquired a taste for French cooking and a French mistress (rumor said she bore him four children and kept him abroad until His Majesty's Government threatened to cut off his funds). Back in Tokyo, he lived fast. He gambled-not for money but for whiskey (i.e., he paid off by taking two drinks every time he lost). He patronized geisha houses. He liked to drive at top speed in his maroon...