Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they could. Now and again, some one of them would claim to be the culprit until at last the true culprit admitted her identity. Then the audience, which had begun to imagine that it would have to wait for a death bed confession, trooped wearily away. There was a rumor that famed Tennis Player William Tatem Tilden Jr. would appear in The Buzzard. He went off to play tennis instead...
Reported Engaged. Sinclair Lewis, most derisive of U. S. novelists, specialist on babbitts, medicos, parsons; to Miss Dorothy Thompson, foreign correspondent of the New York Evening Post. From Naples, Arthur Lewis vigorously denied the engagement, pronouncing the rumor "ridiculous and even libelous." Mrs. Grace Livingstone Hegger Lewis is now in Reno, admittedly to obtain a divorce...
...Gabriel stockholders by discontinuing the regular 87½% quarterly dividend. Six months ago, an alleged but obvious pool had taken "Snubber" stock in hand, had run it up from $40 to $60. Then it fell from $60 to $18, sometimes at a rate of $4 a day. A printed rumor had it that President George H. Rawls of Gabriel, had lost the shock absorber business of the General Motors Corp. President Rawls explained to stockholders that last year was one of the most successful periods in the company's history, but important research and development work required much capital...
Result: The Italian Minister at Vienna, Signor Giacinto Auriti immediately left for Rome to inform Il Duce of precisely what had occurred. Rumor visioned a diplomatic break between Italy and Austria, but more likely loomed the prospect that Il Duce would administer to Austria a tongue lashing similar to that which he indulged in against Germany when Foreign Minister Doktor Gustav Stresemann flayed the Italianization of Lower Tyrol...
Wheat jumped from 2¾ to 3⅛ a bushel in Chicago's Pit last week on rumor that Russia, wheat exporting land, had bought 8,000,000 bushels cash grain in a few days and was in the market for more. An international grain house of the first magnitude refused to be quoted by name in its comment...