Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could point to any organized sabotage, though the unfounded rumor that the herd had the dreaded Bang's disease looked suspiciously like a dirty Republican trick. But the strong gust of wind that blew the tent down, making it necessary to hold the auction in a crowded, drafty barn, was definitely an act of God. Even so, for a registered herd, the bids were suspiciously low. Jersey cows went at $100, and the owner stomped off in a huff when $10 was bid for a young bull. Squire Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s whole herd of 100 purebred dairy...
Noel Coward, visiting Manhattan on his way to entertain South African military hospitals, was asked about a rumor of his engagement to Marina, Britain's beauteous, widowed Duchess of Kent (who was down with flu last week, like many of her countrymen-see p. 44). In clipped syllables he clipped the rumor: "Utterly idiotic...
Scuttlebutt: believe it or not, a drinking fountain (so the rumor goes...
...cream color. But the Old Howard with its translucent stench rising to a few feet above the sea level on the ground floor is changing its cosmetics, not its complexion. This week as every week the stage show deals a knockout punch--a foul jab strictly below the belt. Rumor for years has claimed that the chorus of 30 beauties 30 is recruited from rheumatic jitterbugs on the list of retired University employees, but no one goes to see the chorus anyhow. It's the blue-lighted anatomical solos which bring the crowds past the box office...
...Rumor had it that U.S. newspapers and press associations were rushing reporters abroad to cover the armistice; U.S. and British diplomatic successes in Moscow proved that the second front was around the corner and that, once the corner was turned, the Germans would be smashed in a matter of days; the German transportation system had already collapsed, and was, of course, the reason for Hitler's backing out of Russia; the German Army, particularly its Prussian core, was about to "pull a Badoglio," and throw Hitler to the wolves...