Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czechoslovakia, and Quisling-but for got to cable "Amalgamated Press" about it because he was snooping for bigger new. When the picture opens, Germany has just invaded Russia, and Hope is the only foreign correspondent who missed the scoop. He sent back word that it was all a nasty rumor. Amalgamated recalls him: fires him; and he spends the remaining reels exposing a nest of Gestapo agents in our nation's capital,--strictly in spite of himself...
...report that Adolf Hitler was hitting the bottle reached London last week. It was only a rumor, like the report that Hitler was ill and could not make speeches...
...Lend-Lease pay hotel bills for foreign missions? To this old rumor, usually accompanied by whispers of air-conditioned suites and champagne parties, Mr. Stettinius had a quick answer...
...true that Lend-Lease sent goods to Bermuda against Bermuda's wishes, shipped beer and powder puffs as war supplies? Wrong, said Mr. Stettinius: the U.S. has no Lend-Lease dealings with Bermuda, never shipped a can of beer or a powder puff. (Possible origin of the rumor: to fill empty space on a Lend-Lease ship to North Africa, the Government sent some rayon stockings, sold them for cash, used the francs to buy hemp and cork...
...tapped his cigarette ash into the hearth and watched it drift down onto a pile of half-charred letters, mostly blue and pink ones. All that remained of a burned Crimson said, "Unassigned ERC Goes in February" "That one was no rumor," Vag muttered...