Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speak to an audience which is bound only by interplanetary space. It may not be true that the coughing of the aerial static will be silent as the voice of the host at Hollis 15 travels through the night. Absurd it certainly is to place credence in the rumor that a radio firm has named its newest loudspeaking horn the Cornucopia. Irrelevancies aside, Professor Copeland, whether in Sever 11, the Union, or vibrating the crisp winter air above a million houses is still Copey...
Irene Castle McLaughlin started the rumor. In a letter to the Chicago Tribune, the onetime dancer complained bitterly of cruelty to show horses. Three and five gaited hacks carry their tails high in the show ring. This unnatural elevation is effected by tail sets affixed while show horses are at leisure. "Hideous instruments of torture," complained Mrs. Castle...
What the Austrian Chancellor's attitude was to this proposal was not divulged, but an idea of it may be gleaned from the rumor, emanating from official circles, that Count Mensdorff-Pouilly will soon resign and be replaced by a prominent Pan-German, i. e., one who favors the anschluss...
...said, allegedly without much foundation, that he is a direct descendant of the Biblical King David. With equal lack of foundation Dame Rumor has several times had him engaged to Miss Megan Lloyd George, younger daughter of the famed War Prime Minister, with whom Sir Philip is still on the friendliest terms, despite the fact that he is a Conservative and Mr. George a Liberal...
...Etat, c'est moi,* "beamed Louis XIV of France. Secretary Frank Billings Kellogg might paraphrase: "The State Department, that's me." Last week, in an aftermath conversation about Senator Carter Glass's criticism of the State Department's foreign loan policy (TIME, Oct. 24), in retort to a rumor that the State Department was of divided opinion on the subject, President Coolidge said he had always assumed that the Department of State was the Secretary of State...