Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This would be the fourth U.S. wartime Christmas. The first already seemed as if it had been in another decade. On Christmas Eve, 1941, antiaircraft guns were set up in the backyards of West Coast cities. San Antonio's telephone system was jammed by a rumor-the Jap Fleet was cruising into the Gulf of Mexico. Electric toasters, alarm clocks, nylon stockings were still for sale. There were debutante balls at which orchestras played Blues in the Night. Everywhere, East, West and South, the people waited for air raids. Christmas, they thought, would be just the time the enemy...
Amnesty, Regency? Meanwhile negotiations began between the belligerents. The Hotel Grande Bretagne, which houses the British high command and the Greek Government, buzzed with rumor. An EAM emissary, hefty, handsome Miltiades Porphyrogenis, made his way across the urban battle lines to the headquarters of British Lieut. General Ronald Mackenzie Scobie received from him the British terms for an armistice: ELAS troops in Athens and Piraeus must yield their arms, evacuate the area. Two days later, EAM countered with a three-point demand for an amnesty, an all-party Government, a regency...
From Stockholm this week came a plausible rumor about Hitler's fate. It was reported to have been told by Chief Groupleader Friedrich Brückner, Hitler's former adjutant, at a Berlin dinner party where Brückner had drunk too much...
Ever since last year, when he contributed $160,000 to the then-ailing, now-flourishing Detroit Symphony, Henry H. Reichhold has had the musical world abuzz with rumors. Said rumor: he was about to start 1) a musical magazine of national circulation; 2) a new recording company to rival Columbia, Victor and Decca; 3) a national concert-booking agency; 4) a national record-of-the-month club...
...Earl of Halifax, Britain's gaunt, impenetrably gentlemanly Ambassador to the U.S., deftly parried a U.S. housewives' rumor that Britain has used Lend-Lease lipstick to prettify English girls for lonely G.I.s. Said Halifax: "Lipstick [is] the easiest and quickest way to mark on a war casualty's clothes what and where his wounds...