Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...champions who make most of the money. This winter, however, has seen a shift in money values which brings one sport at least nearer a financial level with its vicious risks. Professional hockey players are being bartered for many thousands, receiving presumably increasingly fat dividends for their efforts. One rumor floats about that the Montreal Canadians hold Howie Morenz, greatest of all hockey players...
...rumor was true. The Old Boys had heard aright. The Varmint is an anachronism and, to Old Boys' despair, the comment of Headmaster Horace D. Taft of the Taft School only emphasized whither the schools are listing. Said Headmaster Taft: "The modern boy is as good as his predecessors. The only trouble is that he needs to be about ten times as good...
...yesterday to all the alumnae of Smith College by the officers of the Alumnae Association, is a plea for support that reveals clearly the distressing position in which that college finds itself as a result of the notoriety that attended the disappearance of Miss Frances Smith. Embraced by rumor and the zealous press, that institution has been unusually subject to the stupidities that characterize such attentions. "Alumnae want to know," the letter states, "Whether it is true that there has been a 'reign of terror' on the campus and whether, as has been said, twenty-six other girls have disappeared...
...draw Rumania out of the orbit of her time-honored ally, France. An Italian-Albanian-Bulgarian-Rumanian rapprochement spanning the lower Balkans and linked up with Hungary, thus encircling Italy's enemy Jugoslavia, has long been a favorite pipe dream for correspondents. Lest it crystallize into a rumor, M. Titulescu prepared, last week, to visit Paris for a friendly chat with Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France...
...home, rejected by Los Angeles, still seeking residence (TIME, Dec. 19). "Do I stay or do I get out?" asked Capone. Chief Quigg announced: "If he's just here to have a good time and doesn't start any rough stuff, I won't bother him." Rumor said that Capone would buy a Miami night club. Capone said: "I've been hounded and pushed around. . . . I'm orderly." Sunshine seekers wondered if Capone's presence in Miami would mean machine gun fights or bigger, better bootlegging...