Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have heard wonder expressed," says the writer, "that the Herald-Crimson does not contain more items of college news, but it is fair to say that the 'Fact and Rumor' column is somewhat deficient in that respect. But who is to blame for this state of things...
...first quotation might have been the remark of an imbecile or an ignoramus who hated professors. The second formed the prelude to a portion of the speech in which II Duce dealt with the widespread rumor that his police are a veritable tsar's cheka. He said: "It was necessary to weed out police, especially the plain clothes police. . . . When police are in plain clothes and have not the check of uniform they must be composed of picked men-zealous and silent citizens...
...Brisbane, Arthur the Great, is becoming sentimental. He's singing editorial mammy songs. He's weeping over the footlights of the pink sheets. He's dying on his feet. Mr. Hearst must go elsewhere for the poisoned arrow with the winged shaft. Or doesn't he want to? The rumor is that he doesn...
Correspondents traced the new ruling to last fortnight's flurry over the President's rumored signing, in 1912, of an anti-third term petition directed against Theodore Roosevelt (TIME, May 23). In view of President Coolidge's possible 1928 presidential candidacy, his signing of a No-Third-Term petition (if he did sign one) would indeed have been a "bloody invention" returned to plague the inventor. Seeking official confirmation or denial, most of the Washington correspondents referred to the rumor in their conference questions. When the petition subject was wholly ignored, newspapers reported that the White House...
...Lives. Despite the Acadians indifference to their danger, however, only ten lives are definitely known to have been lost in Louisiana, though rumor has listed the dead at more than 100. Nine of the dead belonged to one family, a widowed woman and her eight children. Caught as the flood entered Plaucheville, the Widow Dupré fled with her children to the second story of her home. The water poured into the house, reached the second story, continued to rise. A rescue boat found the entire family huddled together, drowned...