Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to clear the College atmosphere of subversive gossip, the Crimson Network tonight will broadcast the first results of a series of investigations being conducted by the Harvard Rumor Clinic...
...solicit advertisements, solicit subscriptions, pay bills, repair presses and linotype (jackleg repairing), splice belts, saw metal cuts, pay bills, chisel cuts, make up newspaper, order supplies, tell people where the local draft board is, tell others where the town's lawyer might be, tell still others that silly rumor they were excited about was only a silly rumor, pay bills, wash forms, distribute type, solicit job printing, pacify irate subscribers whose paper failed to arrive, pay bills, edit bungled copy, collect bills, pay bills, sort mail, scan the exchanges and maybe clip an item...
...London Times and the New York Times, Hugh Byas could afford not to be a hawker of sensations. In late years it was a rare sight to see the red-faced Scot walk with his heavy cane into the lobby of the Imperial Hotel and sit down with the rumor factors there. He never rushed down to Yokohama to find a friend in the saloon of a luxury liner and ask him to smuggle out an item that would burn up the mails. He always quoted sources, never "informed circles." The only ruse of which he was guilty while...
...radioed to shrewd little Admiral Jean François Darlan, commander of Vichy's armed forces, in Algiers: "I am glad you are on the spot.* You can act. Keep me informed." It was Admiral Darlan, according to reports, who surrendered Algiers. He was a U.S. prisoner and rumor held that he might be persuaded to another ratlike twist of his career: a shift to the anti-Vichy side. As for Vichy's unsavory Chief of Government Pierre Laval, this wiliest of the men of Vichy was said to have hastened to Rome for a worried meeting with...
...deny a rumor that she had stuffed paper in her shoes because the soles were thinning. But she was not the least bit disturbed by appearing every day in the same hat (cherry red, trimmed with red and green birds' wings) and the same coat (black cloth, with two blue fox furs trailing from the shoulders). She called it her "battle dress...