Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fontaine Fox is a "he," despite rumor, living at Port Washington, L. I., where are originals of the Toonerville Trolley, Powerful Katrinka...
...used to meet, instead of small-time vaudeville folk, really queer dicks like David Wilbur, Rhode Island's gentle, weatherwise, forest wildman, whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body in a coffee sack, his head in a tin pot, who took Swedenborgian Bibles to the Indians and in 46 years of roaming planted fruitful apple pips over 100,000 square miles of Middle America...
...shiny steel. Five men lay dead at last, according to report. Two dead were Italian, and all the living knew that Italy might intervene under her new treaty with Albania (TIME, Dec. 13) for vengeance. Through the crooked, cobbled, time-stained streets Fear stalked last week, with the numbing rumor that he who fired the first shot was an Italian agent provocateur. Why not? A few more such incidents, and Il Duce can mature his reputed scheme to seize Albania under pretext of "intervention to maintain Albanian sovereignty...
...Rumor has it and it not Rumor, then Human Nature that Adam's first words of wisdom were "Shall we join the ladies." Indeed and for a deeting weekend, the ladies take advantage of the opportunity to join Adam, and, to be more specific, to join his progeny, the sons of John Harvard...
Toto, who weighs 118 pounds and can enclose himself in a two foot cube, is generally thought to be double-jointed. Disparaging this rumor, Toto said, "There is no such thing as being double-jointed. Every trick I perform is made possible through practice. Houdini was not a contortionist; he was a trickster. Each of his acts were done by subtility, and not by muscular coordination. Anyone can double himself into a small space if he will only practice...